Why Friedrich Merz is silent in foreign policy suddenly

Friedrich Merz is a talented speaker. What you didn’t know so far: he can also be a pronounced silence. For days, the man who finally wants to become a chancellor was not heard. It is as if he wanted to build a ramp for his big appearance after completing the coalition negotiations.

You can do it that way. It may even have been smart to hermetically seal the negotiations of the Union and the SPD. The top staff must also go a good example. Suggiting intermediate stands mostly causes misunderstandings and false expectations. After all, the following applies in coalition negotiations: nothing is ready before not everything is negotiated.

Merz recently silent how a trapp-player monk during Lent. But what may seem understandable in domestic politics worked irritating in terms of foreign policy. Especially since Merz had started very differently. Immediately after his election victory, he flew to Emmanuel Macron to Paris and later to the meeting of the European Conservatives in Brussels. After the announcement of the billions of bills for the military and infrastructure, the Chancellor sounded in Spe: “Germany is back.”

Yes, where, please? Suddenly nothing came from Friedrich Merz. Nothing about Türkiye, nothing too much, nothing to do. Coalition negotiations cannot explain this total foreign policy total. After all, a comment on the arrest of the most important Turkish opposition politician does not depend on whether the mother’s pension is expanded in Germany, but on the importance that democratic values ​​are attached to.

I am gradually suspected that Friedrich Merz submits his foreign policy speeches of domestic opportunities. He talks when it benefits him and he is silent if it could harm him. Examples?

When US Vice President Jd Vance criticized Europe in Munich, Merz called it “almost attacking”. When Donald Trump picked up Wolodymyr Selenskyj in the Oval Office, the CDU chairman said that the escalation of the conversation was obviously brought about. Merz even called for more independence from the United States.

However, his existence as a political chat pocket fell exactly in the time when Merz put on his financial policy turn. The amazing swivel from SparFroh to the debt maker was needed to justify a dramatic backdrop to combine the voter deception – because the construction of new schools and the renovation of bridges, if at all, only has to do with many corners around with defense ability.

The behavior of the CDU leader according to the obviously politically motivated arrest of Ekrem İmamoğlu, the mayor of Istanbul and the greatest rival of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Not a word from Merz. Could that have to do with the fact that he does not want to bury Turkey as an important partner in migration policy? Could it be that Merz wants to make the expectations of his voters to make Germany more and more difficult to achieve for refugees at the expense of solidarity with Turkish democracy?

The only foreign policy issue that Friedrich Merz’s CDU currently deals with is the question of who could become the new Foreign Minister if the department falls to the CDU. This is a little bit for orientation.