Germany’s Chancellor Merz admits his government has "not done enough" — then shifts part of the blame onto his coalition partner, the SPD: I admit that, given the polling numbers and the election results we have to fear, what we have done so far has not been enough. Some things should be better, but we are not alone in government. Some things run up against limits that we cannot really overcome with the SPD. Pure CDU policy is only possible with an absolute majority—and we narrowly missed that in the last federal election.