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Video. Watch: tough love and record-low polls—inside the Friedrich Merz disaster

Updated: 21/05/2026 - 9:49 GMT+2

One year into Friedrich Merz’s chancellorship, the honeymoon is long gone - and much of the damage is self-inflicted. What went wrong?

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