Friedrich Merz Unveils Cabinet for Germany's New Coalition Government

On Eurofighters, Turkey hedges bets as it awaits Merz's decision in Germany

With the government of the incoming chancellor poised to decide the fate of the deal, analysts debate whether it will survive and suggest possible alternatives.

CDU and CSU have announced who is moving into the future Federal Cabinet. Member of the Bundestag Wadephul is to become Foreign Minister - the first Christian Democrat in almost 60 years. Katherina Reiche is intended for business, the CSU politician Dobrindt is to lead the Interior Ministry. A surprise is the occupation of the Digital Ministry.

Friedrich Merz announces new cabinet posts

Seven ministries will go to the CDU, seven to the SPD and three to the CSU. It is now clear who the CDU and CSU want to send to the cabinet as ministers.

Eight days before the planned chancellor election of Friedrich Merz, the CDU and CSU ministerial tableau is established. The SPD wants to announce its team only after the members' decision has been taken.

German politics remains mainly a matter of men, and more specifically of white men from West Germany. As if Angela Merkel's 16-year-old chancellery, a woman who until she was 35 years old lived on the other side of the Berlin Wall, had been a parenthesis.

Friedrich Merz, the future chancellor of Germany, has nominated the ministers who will be part of the future cabinet on behalf of his party CDU/CSU. The Christian Democrats will provide seven ministers. The 62-year-old Johann Wadephul has been put forward as the new foreign minister. Wadephul is an experienced politician and is seen as a loyal ally of Merz. In recent years, he has advocated, among other things, the supply of weapons to Ukraine. …