Friedrich Merz
Friedrich Merz was reported as planning to lower Germany’s electricity tax, with room in the federal budget for the move 1. On foreign policy, he rejected a diesel deal for Germany in a US-Russia arrangement and called for tighter sanctions 2. Bloomberg also portrayed his coalition as struggling to advance reforms amid differences and falling public support 3, while Merz was reported to be seeking a compromise to stabilise the fractious coalition amid scrutiny involving his conservative party and a far-right candidate 4.
From the window to Oct 13, 05:30 ET — this window's take is still to be written.
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The stories
- ○ a voice, on the left
- ◌ a voice raising half of these
- ● a subject, on the right, under its story
- ⌒ a line is a voice raising a subject — thicker, more items; colour is the story
The stories this entity travels in: on the right, each story with the subjects seen alongside it; on the left, the voices that raised them, and a line for every subject a voice raised, bundled by story. Tap a voice to light everything it raises, a subject for who raised it, a story for its own lines. The crumb goes back.
Who brings it up
- Bloomberg 4 mentions
- Walter Bloomberg 2 mentions
- Michael Every 1 mention
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