Rude, stiff and humorless – for many, that’s the stereotypical German.
As for failing Chancellor Friedrich Merz, he seems to carry these colors with pride – is even capable of scolding a ‘terminal-Cancer patient’ voter for asking a question he didn’t like, never taking the time to wish the woman good luck in her health battle, or having any word of incentive or empathy at all.
In the field of foreign policy, Merz has been just as rude.
He is in the middle of a big self-imposed crisis, because after he stated that Iran was ‘humiliating’ the US in the peace negotiations, Donald J. Trump hit back at him, and decided to pull thousands of US troops out of Germany, and hike the tariffs on EU’s cars.
While Merz is ‘celebrating’ his failing one year as Chancellor with a speech tour around the country, where he’s been mocked, booed, jeered and ridiculed.
So, now, he decided to dig for more trouble with the US, by airing his controversial opinions for the world to hear.
“I wouldn’t advise my own children to study or work in the US right now.”
That’s what German Chancellor Friedrich Merz told a Catholic youth group on Friday. He said that his goal was to ease young people’s anxiety about their future in Germany. pic.twitter.com/QWgiouQnl6— DW Politics (@dw_politics) May 15, 2026
Reuters reported:
“German Chancellor Friedrich Merz on Friday said he would advise his children against living or studying in the United States at the moment, citing a rapidly changing social climate and limited opportunities even for the highly educated.
Speaking to a young audience at a Catholic convention in Wuerzburg, Merz said people were too prone to think in ‘disaster mode’ about the state of the world and urged Germans to feel more optimistic about their own country’s potential.”
“’I firmly believe that there are few countries in the world that offer such great opportunities, especially for young people, as Germany’, he said.
‘I wouldn’t recommend that my children go to the U.S. today, get their education there, and work there, simply because a social climate has suddenly developed there’, said Merz, a 70-year-old father of three. ‘Today, the best-educated people in America have great difficulty finding a job’.”
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