Overview
- At his first summer press conference after 74 days in office, Chancellor Friedrich Merz affirmed that the CDU-CSU-SPD coalition remains united despite recent setbacks.
- He denounced the hostile treatment and threats against SPD judge nominee Frauke Brosius-Gersdorf as completely unacceptable and pledged to revisit the Federal Constitutional Court appointments.
- Merz did not rule out a full re-nomination of the three delayed court candidates and said talks are underway to build a two-thirds Bundestag majority for their confirmation.
- Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt’s first deportation flight to Afghanistan carried 81 convicted serious offenders, marking the government’s tougher migration enforcement stance.
- Praising rapid progress, Merz highlighted an “economic turnaround” and the volume of measures passed in his first ten weeks as evidence of early policy momentum.