Bundeswehr, state aid, debt service, climate fund: recently, politics has rarely been a question of money. Now Lindner wants to turn the lever. Politically, this is a declaration of war.
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Henrike Rossbach, Berlin
How Christian Lindner sees himself and how he would like to be seen can be followed on his Instagram channel, for example. The FDP leader in the election campaign in North Rhine-Westphalia: “Finally: photos, selfies and autographs”. The Federal Finance Minister in the sunshine next to the Chancellor and the Economics Minister, with Meseberg Castle in the background. Lindner, freshly released from the corona quarantine in Washington, behind him a statue of Thomas Jefferson, “a champion of democracy, human rights and freedom”.