Merz Announced CDU Candidates for German Cabinet
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Friedrich Merz announced the first candidates from the CDU for ministerial posts, emphasizing experience and dedication. Among them are Wadephul for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Schneider for transport.
The most likely future Chancellor of Germany, Friedrich Merz, has announced the names of the first candidates from his Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party for ministerial posts in the new Cabinet. He said that his choice is based on experience, party loyalty and leadership with a business orientation. This is reported by Politico and Reuters, writes UNN.
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The German Foreign Ministry may be headed by Johann Wadephul. This fellow party member of Merz, in particular, advocated allowing Ukraine to use German weapons to strike targets in Russia. He is an experienced expert in foreign and security policy.
At the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Johann Wadephul, an experienced expert in defense and foreign policy, is to lead Germany's diplomatic efforts in a time of increasing global tensions.
The direction of European policy will be supervised by two strong representatives of the CDU. In particular, Serap Güler is proposed for the post of State Minister for International Cooperation at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. While Günther Krischbaum, a veteran of EU policy, will take the post of State Minister for European Affairs.
A strong expert in transport policy, Patrick Schnieder, is proposed for the post of head of the Ministry of Transport. Karin Prien may become the Minister of Education. In the past, she headed this sector in the northern state of Schleswig-Holstein.
Former energy manager Katherina Reiche will head the Ministry of Economy and Energy, which will oversee Germany's reindustrialization plans. And MP Christiane Schenderlein has been named as a candidate for the post of Minister of Sports and Volunteer Policy. Nina Warken, a Bundestag expert on legal issues, has been appointed to head the Ministry of Health.
The new Ministry of Digitalization for the country may be headed by physicist, head of technical fields Karsten Wildberger. He is needed in the powerful team to promote digital reforms.
Merz's key ally and former CDU/CSU parliamentary manager Thorsten Frei will become head of the Chancellery, a powerful position similar to chief of staff. Frei will be responsible for coordinating government activities and ensuring Cabinet discipline, a critical position as Merz seeks to advance his ambitious domestic and security agenda.
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The key task of the German government is to revive the growth of Europe's largest economy at a time when the global trade war caused by US President Donald Trump's significant import tariffs threatens another year of recession, as well as to increase defense spending amid tensions in the transatlantic NATO alliance.
Merz hopes that his government will avoid the internal infighting that plagued his predecessor's three-party coalition with Olaf Scholz's Social Democrats – and ultimately led to its collapse last November – and that he will prove more decisive.
Even before taking office, Merz and the SPD managed to pass a historic fiscal package through parliament that will allow his government to sharply increase spending on infrastructure and defense.
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