-The author is director of the Center for Advanced Security, Strategic and Integration Studies at the University of Bonn. ISTANBUL  German poet Hermann Hesse's statement that there is magic in every beginning may only apply to a very limited extent to the start of the government under Chancellor Friedrich Merz. The makeup of the new Cabinet remained unclear until the last moment. There were cancellations, such as that of the CDU's leading economic policy figure and person responsible for the