During the 35th-anniversary celebration of German Unity on October 3rd, Chancellor Friedrich Merz called for national unity but delivered a stark warning: Germans must prepare for austerity to secure the country’s future.
Merz argued that Germany is „under attack“ from external and internal threats, requiring a major increase in defense capacity. To finance this, he warned that social promises would be „more difficult to uphold than they have been in the past,“ effectively signaling cuts to the social welfare system. He stressed citizens must „make a little more effort,“ tying economic sacrifice directly to national defense and stability, while also citing „irregular, uncontrolled migration“ as a source of domestic polarization.
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