The candidate of the CDU Chairman Friedrich Merz, has praised German Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) for use in the Corona-crisis. “I think that the Chancellor and the Prime Minister are doing well,” said Merz of the “Westphalia post” in one of the first Interviews after surviving Coronavirus disease.
“Mrs Merkel is one of the politicians who think first and then talk, and I just in such a Situation, more sympathetic than Vice versa,” said the 64-year-old politician to the question of whether the Chancellor’s response was too late. Reuters/Markus Schreiber/AP POOL/Reuters German Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU)
economy: Merz to double-digit minus growth
Merz was believed on the 15th. March positive for the Coronavirus tested. Then he has to go, according to the newspaper, together with his wife and his youngest daughter in his house in Arnsberg in the 14-day quarantine. He only felt mild to moderate symptoms, said Merz. His family remained healthy.
The former Chairman of the CDU/CSU group in the Bundestag reported, therefore, about 80 contact persons at the health Department of the Hochsauerland region. He presume, however, that he had no one attached to said Merz of the “Westphalia post”.
Merz renewed its assessment that the economy will still “suffer from a very, very long” from the consequences of the Corona pandemic. “I am one of those who see the projections for economic growth is more likely in the double digits as a single digit,” he told the newspaper.
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