German FAZ: Friedrich Merz benefits from the upswing? 009295

You have to be lucky, at least a little. This may sound absurd to the start of a government, which, like no one in front of her, is trapped from the beginning between problems, surrounded by a cold -blooded warrior in Moscow, an erroneous lighting potentate in Washington and an aggressive right -wing populist at the head of the largest opposition party at home. And a stubborn economic flaut that makes dealing with all these challenges even more difficult.
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