“Heating hammer”, “breach of word”, deep-seated distrust and a compromise proposal: how could the dispute about the heat transition escalate so much – and how does the traffic light come out again? A reconstruction.
They had talked about each other quite a bit lately. Green Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck had just accused the FDP of finance minister Christian Lindner of “breaching his word”. On Wednesday, the ministers of the traffic light coalition will sit together at a table for the first time in two weeks. The disputing parties can no longer avoid each other at the cabinet meeting in the Chancellery, they have to talk.