Germany’s Merz Says He Won’t Advise His Children Work in US

Chancellor Friedrich Merz attends a panel discussion with young people in Wuerzburg, southern Germany.Photographer: Matthias Schrader/Pool/AFP/Getty Images

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said that he wouldn’t recommend his children go to live in the US because of what he described as a “social climate” that has suddenly taken hold.

“I’m a great admirer of America — my admiration is not increasing at the moment,” Merz told a group of Roman Catholics in the southern town of Wuerzburg. “I would not recommend my children today go to the US to be trained or to work there.”