Ministers who will participate in the next cabinet from the Christian Union were presented today by Friedrich Mertz. What are the Foreign and Interior Ministry.

Response from Berlin

The next cabinet is almost ready. Friedrich Mertz today gave green light to the names of the conservative MPs of the next government. The Christian Union, Christian Democrats and Christian Socialists who will participate in the next government have already been disclosed and pending the names of the Social Democrats to be minister. These are expected to be announced on Wednesday, April 30, when the party’s vote on the government agreement is completed.

Johann Vandeful: Merz’s trusted

After 60 years, the Christian Democrats have taken over the steering wheel of the German Foreign Minister with 62 -year -old Johann Vandeful, a close friend and trusted associate of the next Chancellor Friedrich Mertz, responsible for many years in the Christian Democrats on foreign policy and policy.

He is in favor of continuing support in Ukraine, even with taurus large -scale missiles and strongly criticizes the new US policy that Donald Trump is proud of. But his positions are also interesting for Turkey, which, like many Christian Democrats, considers an important NATO-German NATO country.

According to a report by Spiegel in 2022, he had even criticized the outgoing Foreign Minister Analena Berbock from the Prasins when she had a fire against Turkey for her reviewing aspirations in the Aegean during her visit to Athens.

Alexander Dobrid: “Hard professional”

In the crucial and for Greece, a German interior minister will now have the steering wheel by the Bavarian Christian Socialist Alexander Dobrid, who belongs to the narrow circle of party leader Marcus Zender. He has previously served as Transport Ministry in the third government of Angela Merkel and is known as a “tough professional”. This is what Marcus Zender describes him.

Alexander Dobrid has already said he would make the implementation of the new government’s commitments to a strict immigration policy with increasing controls and deportations directly from the German border.

A similar line is not excluded from the implementation of the Dublin Regulation, it should be noted that just a week ago the Federal Administrative Court of Leipzig we are now allowed to “return” asylum seekers to Greece, where German judges are “living conditions”.