From Dresden to Valletta: What Malta Must Learn as Germany’s Merz Tackles Far-Right Surge
**Merz’s East German Tour: A Cautionary Tale for Malta’s Own Battle with Extremism** Friedrich Merz’s whistle-stop tour through Germany’s former communist east this week reads like a political thriller set in a half-finished democracy. The CDU leader is racing to blunt the far-right AfD’s surge before three state elections in September, and every handshake in…