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📰 Merzession: When the Coalition Becomes the Scapegoat Germany just handed Merz’s CDU–SPD coalition another slap in Baden‑Württemberg: the conservatives underperformed expectations, the SPD cratered, and voters went shopping for anyone who doesn’t already own the mess. After two years of near‑zero growth, soaring energy costs, “red alert” in core industries like chemicals, and now an Iran war pushing oil higher again, Merz’s promise to “fix” the economy has curdled into a meme — “Merzession.” Business wants fast reforms, voters want cheaper lives, and instead they watch a chancellor trapped in a coalition that can’t move on migration, can’t move on bureaucracy, and can only blame Trump’s tariffs and Middle East shocks so many times before it sounds like an alibi. In that vacuum, AfD climbs, the Greens recover, and every state election turns into a referendum on a government that told Europe “Germany is back” — then delivered another year of stagnation. In other words, Merz isn’t just paying for “the weak economic situation”; he’s paying for selling competence and getting caught governing like everyone else. #germany#merz#economy#AfD#eu#war#iran#fakeDemocracy 📱American Оbserver - Stay up to date on all important events 🇺🇸