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What's on Friedrich Merz's mind?

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the cabinet reshuffle 33% the surrogacy scandal 20% · newthe Azerbaijan partnership 16% the secret Baku meeting 11% everything else 20%

Fires the transport minister, names his first woman chief of staff, and calls it a fresh start.

Germany: Friedrich Merz announces Cabinet reshuffle

our translation

he can't move the polls so he moves the furniture — a new team lets him look decisive without touching a single policy the afd is beating him on

reshuffle announced todayvery sure · 3 sources

new — scandal forced the reshufflevery sure · 3 sources

declaration signed this weekvery sure · 3 sources

only one outlet todaypretty sure · 1 source

friday, july 24

Unveil the new cabinet and name Warken chief of staff(reported)

Sell the shake-up as an anti-AfD firewall before state elections(reported)

Explain why the transport minister was shown the door(reported)

Keep the Azerbaijan gas partnership warm after Aliyev's visit(safe bet)

rebuilt from the public schedule, pool reports & old habits — the rest is educated guessing

The source

Germany's Merz picks first woman chief of staff in shake-up before state elections

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