{"id":38638,"date":"2025-11-15T10:01:25","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T10:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/world\/germans-losing-patience-with-merz-economy-not-recovering-support-falling-bloomberg\/"},"modified":"2025-11-15T10:01:25","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T10:01:25","slug":"germans-losing-patience-with-merz-economy-not-recovering-support-falling-bloomberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/world\/germans-losing-patience-with-merz-economy-not-recovering-support-falling-bloomberg\/","title":{"rendered":"Germans losing patience with Merz: economy not recovering, support falling \u2013 Bloomberg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Friedrich Merz faces a decline in popularity, with only 16% of Germans supporting him as a candidate. Economic forecasts are falling, and his coalition is paralyzed by internal conflicts.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/unn.ua\/_next\/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimg.unn.ua%2Fimg%2F2025%2F11%2F15%2F1763199635-4120-large.webp&amp;w=720&amp;q=75\" alt=\"Germans losing patience with Merz: economy not recovering, support falling \u2013 Bloomberg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, who promised to revive the economy and strengthen the country&#039;s position in the world, is facing a sharp drop in popularity. Only 16% of Germans support him as a candidate in the next federal elections, and his coalition is paralyzed by internal conflicts and rivalries. This is stated in a Bloomberg article, writes UNN.<\/p>\n<h2>Details<\/h2>\n<p>Merz promised to stop mass migration, turn the Bundeswehr into Europe&#039;s strongest army, and end the economic downturn.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>We can, through our own efforts, once again become the engine of growth that the world will look upon with admiration.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 he said in his first speech in office.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>However, six months later, voters are still waiting for results, and economic forecasts are falling: growth is expected to be below 1%, stock indices show minimal growth, and defense company shares are falling.<\/p>\n<p>Youth from Ukraine should serve their country, not leave for Germany &#8211; Merz13.11.25, 19:19 \u2022 19376 views<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>There are people in his faction who question all the Chancellor&#039;s talk and ask themselves: where are the results? But the prospects are bleak.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 states Sudha David-Wilp, a senior fellow at the German Marshall Fund.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Merz, who just turned 70, hopes to remain calm and focused: &quot;I am grateful that I am fit and healthy and can fully concentrate on my duties as Chancellor.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>German police arrest suspect in plot to assassinate politicians11.11.25, 14:14 \u2022 2433 views<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friedrich Merz faces a decline in popularity, with only 16% of Germans supporting him as a candidate. Economic forecasts are falling, and his coalition is paralyzed by internal conflicts. German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, who promised to revive the economy and strengthen the country&#039;s position in the world, is facing a sharp drop in popularity. Only [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38639,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-38638","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38638\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}