It’s never too early to start asking the K question. Especially when a party is not sure who actually has what it takes to be chancellor.
April 22 years ago was not a very eventful month. The World Trade Center was still standing, and Gerhard Schröder moved into the new Berlin Chancellery, which was considered too big at the time and is now considered too small. There was also a little crises: The Chinese had forced an American spy plane to land after it collided with a Chinese military jet. In the course of the month, the arrested US soldiers were released again, the then US President George Dabbeljuh Bush had expressed his regret about the incident. In addition, in April 2001 the Federal Horticultural Show opened in Potsdam.