In Munich, Friedrich Merz gave an obituary for the foreign policy of Berlin. Is Germany prepared to leave the comfort zone of pacifism and enter a nuclear age of realism? The leader of the CDU has just declared that the „vacation from world history” is over , and that Europe has a choice between hard power and marginalization. Friedrich Merz used his speech at the Munich Conference to send a message, as blunt as it was unvarnished, to partners and adversaries alike: „Europe is back,” in a world