Merz’s fresh start goes awry

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German Chancellor Friedrich Merz arrives for the weekly federal government cabinet meeting on July 29, 2026 in Berlin, Germany. | Sean Gallup/Getty Images BERLIN — In normal times, Germany’s parliamentary summer recess is when top politicians get to exhale, and journalists are left to forage for so-called Sommerloch stories: summer-fillers about runaway animals and mysterious predators [...]