BERLIN (Reuters) – Opposition leader Friedrich Merz, the frontrunner to become Germany’s next chancellor, said the second presidency of Donald Trump would bring clarity for the European Union as he hosted conservative EU heavyweights in Berlin.
“I think Trump is very predictable,” Merz said at a press conference alongside Manfred Weber, head of the conservative European People’s Party (EPP), the biggest lawmaker group in the European Parliament.
“In this respect, I think we can prepare ourselves for the fact that there will be a lot more clarity in the coming weeks and months and that there will of course also be many challenges,” he added.
Merz, the head of Germany’s CDU/CSU conservative bloc, is in line to succeed Social Democratic Chancellor Olaf Scholz, whose fractious coalition with the Greens and the pro-business Free Democrats collapsed in November over contradictory plans to revive the nation’s ailing economy.
Merz said…
