Man who finally became CDU leader in 2022 hosts event to belatedly mark Merkel’s 70th birthday
Friedrich Merz Angela Merkel speak prior to a speech by him on tax reform at the CDU party congress in Leipzig in December 2003. Years later, Merkel thwarted Merz's ambitions to succeed her as CDU leader. Photograph: Sean Gallup/Getty Images Germany ’s favourite political feud is no more. After 22 entertaining years, ex-chancellor Angela Merkel and Friedrich Merz, her rival and chancellor hopeful, have buried the hatchet in public – instead of in each other.
The high came in 2000 when Merkel snatched the leadership of the CDU, still reeling from a donations scandal, and appointed Merz as her deputy.‘Britain is no longer sure of itself’: Keir Starmer tries to steady his troops as he promises hard work will deliver Or biographers like Eckhart Lohse, political correspondent with the conservative Frankfurter Allgemeine daily. In his new work: Deceit: Merkel and her Germans, he argues that her four-term run as chancellor was based on an unspoken deal: in exchange for her promise of a quiet life in increasingly complex times, the public gave Merkel their support.
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