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What's on Friedrich Merz's mind?

read fresh this morning at 6

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the cabinet reshuffle 38% the surrogacy scandal 18% his first woman chief of staff 15% · newAfD still leads the polls 11% · neweverything else 18%

Merz Guts His Own Front Bench And Promises There's More Coming

Friday's shake-up took out the transport minister, moved party leadership, and came with an explicit 'to be continued'.

Germany: Friedrich Merz announces Cabinet reshuffle

DW.com · 2026-07-24

our translation

he can't change the polls, so he changes the people. announcing that more heads will roll is the part he actually wants heard — it makes him look like the one doing the deciding rather than the one being decided about.

Reshuffle announced Friday, 40+ outletsvery sure · 3 sources

The Resignation He Didn't Choose Is Now The Reshuffle He Did

Reshuffle has overtaken the scandalvery sure · 3 sources

Nina Warken Gets The Chancellery, And The Headline He Wanted

new — Reuters and Bloomberg both led with itvery sure · 3 sources

State Elections Loom And His Own Ally Pokes At The Firewall

new — State elections loom, firewall questionedpretty sure · 3 sources

saturday, july 25

Brief out the next round of cabinet changes he already teased(reported)

Walk Nina Warken through the chancellery she now runs(reported)

Read every reshuffle write-up before reading the AfD numbers(safe bet)

Decide whether the economy minister survives the weekend(reported)

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

The source

German Chancellor Merz reshuffles Cabinet, signals more changes to come

news.google.com · 2026-07-25

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