Merz's next big reform. But where are the reforms?

Friedrich Merz finally has his reform moment. The trouble is that many of the 34 measures announced this week aren't really reforms at all.

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Has Friedrich Merz finally found his mojo?

After 13 months of grand promises but little delivery; after a now-infamous retreat with his coalition partners at a Berlin villa that was supposed to produce a breakthrough but descended into rancour; after polls so disastrous that they sparked rumours of an inner-party coup… at last, the chancellor…