Germany’s election victor must ditch its debt rules—fast
FRIEDRICH MERZ, who is likely to become Germany’s next chancellor, used his victory in Sunday’s elections to issue a remarkable warning to his compatriots. This was not the need to revive his country’s ailing economy, nor to respond to the alarmingly strong performance of the hard-right Alternative for Germany (AfD). It was a blistering indictment of Germany’s chief ally, the United States of America, and its president, Donald Trump.
