Germany’s Merz turns against Trump over war in Iran – POLITICO “There were different rounds within the coalition where we insisted very strongly that we should clearly reject this war,” Adis Ahmetovic, the leading foreign policy lawmaker for the SPD, told Deutschlandfunk radio earlier this week. 'Economic and refugee fears' But Merz is also being driven by the economic risks of a prolonged war, particularly as Germany's energy-intensive manufacturing sector — which was already sputtering before the war started — is particularly vulnerable to cost spikes. “Growth prospects are likely to continue to deteriorate,” Veronika Grimm, one of the country’s leading economists, wrote in an essay for German newspaper Handelsblatt. ... #Germanys #Merz #turns #against #Trump