One calls for “massive state support programs”, the other urges savings: How Robert Habeck and Christian Lindner deliver an open exchange of blows at the employers’ day – without a clear winner.
Christian Lindner has to get more restless by the minute. The colleague at the front on the stage is again putting a lot of money in the shop window that the finance minister hasn’t even released yet. Lindner hears everything that his colleague Robert Habeck announces on the podium at the Employers’ Day. Also about the nuclear power plants. And at some point he apparently decides that he will retaliate when it is his turn. Lindner versus Habeck – at the Employers’ Day, the differences are brought to market with astonishing openness in these extremely instructive minutes. A political showdown between the smaller government partners, a stress test for the yellow-green citrus coalition