A Look Ahead: Germany after Angela Merkel

On December 2, 2020,

Deutsches Haus at NYU presented a panel discussion among Christine Landfried, Joyce Mushaben, Steven Sokol (moderator), and Boris Vormann looking ahead at Germany in 2021, as part of the conference "Germany: An Inventory of the Now." Opening remarks were provided by David Gill, the German Consul General in New York.

After four terms as Germany’s chancellor, Angela Merkel will step down in 2021. The new leadership of the Christian Democratic Union is still being fought out among three rivaling candidates – Friedrich Merz, Armin Laschet, and Norbert Roettgen – and will be determined in a (COVID-delayed) party congress to take place sometime before the federal election on September 26, 2021. Our panel of political scientists and thinkers will consider what Germany’s political future might look like in the absence of Angela Merkel, and which political coalitions the election results might bring. How will the county move forward? Will Merkel’s competent handling of the COVID-19 pandemic lend a boost to the CDU? Who might Germany’s next chancellor be? What does this mean for Europe and the U.S.?

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