(CN) — After a year in office, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz is mired in a “polycrisis.”
The economy is sputtering, the chancellor’s popularity has plummeted and his massive rearmament plan is forcing unpopular cuts to social services and new taxes upon Germans. That’s not all: He’s arguing with allies, energy bills are rising as wars in Ukraine and the Middle East drag on and the far-right Alternative for Germany is ahead of his center-right Christian Democrats in the polls.
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