Financial Times: Hendrik Wüst, the 50-year-old prime minister of North Rhine-Westphalia, shares many of Merz’s attributes: he is also tall, tie-wearing and steeped in the conservative heartlands of western Germany. But he has something the chancellor lacks: public appeal.
Wüst has not said he wants Merz’s job. But a statesmanlike visit to Poland accompanied by Berlin-based journalists last week, including a carefully choreographed stop at Auschwitz, was enough to prompt a flurry of commentary about a change at the top…