This is how the Germans think about Friedrich Merz’s foreign policy

Chancellor Friedrich Merz is currently meeting US President Donald Trump again at the G7 summit in Canada. It remains open whether Merz can build on his visit to the White House, where he knew how to impress. In any case, the successful meeting helped him almost two weeks ago to present himself as a good representative of German interests.

A Forsa survey on behalf of the star show: 56 percent of the voters of all parties like how the new Chancellor occurs abroad, 33 percent, on the other hand, do not have this impression, eleven percent did not give up any opinion.

Accordingly, Merz receives a high level of approval not only from the CDU/CSU’s own warehouse (89 percent), but also from supporters of the SPD (75) and the Greens (71). According to the Forsa survey, Merz is majority for his work abroad only by AfD voters (69).

In the Oval Office, some statesmen failed on the unpredictable Trump, but the Chancellor was praised by him. Merz gives a negotiating position that Trump sees Germany primarily as the most important economic power in Europe. As an opposition politician, Merz had predicted that he would do well with Trump – so far he has held its word.

This Forsa survey was carried out before the G7 summit, which takes place in Canada until June 17 and in which the German Chancellor and the US President speak again.

The data was made by the market and opinion research institute for the star and RTL Germany on June 12th and 13th. Database: 1006 respondents. Statistical fault tolerance: +/- 3 percentage points. This means that the survey is representative. The exact question was: “Does Merz represent Germany’s interests abroad?”