At times it felt like the three parties thought they were governing three completely different countries
Christian Lindner of the FDP, the Greens’ Robert Habeck and the chancellor, Olaf Scholz, of the SPD at the budget debate session in January. Christian Lindner of the FDP, the Greens’ Robert Habeck and the chancellor, Olaf Scholz, of the SPD at the budget debate session in January.
And in its first year in power, unorthodox thinking was precisely what was called for. Amid the upheaval that followed Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the, introduced in the summer of 2022 to help people cope with a resulting soar in energy prices, was a hit. More often than not, the third wheel applied the brakes, and as a result many of its policies were stop-start. Scholz announced an epochal turn on defence matters but then prevaricated on export of heavy arms to Ukraine. The Greens pushed for heat pumps to replace gas heaters in German homes but were forced to backtrack, leaving a fledging industry in a mess. “We expected creative destruction, but instead we got destruction and none of the creativity,” says Busch.
After Scholz sacked the FDP finance minister, Christian Lindner, on Wednesday, he criticised the liberal politician for insisting that aid for Ukraine must be drawn from the regular budget. Lindner replied that loosening the debt brake mechanism would have contradicted his “oath in office” – a claim whose accuracy legal and economic experts question.
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