“Look at your pension,” says an expert on ARD – and explains the “problem” of the debt brake. Finance Minister Christian Lindner is determined to stick to it, although his coalition partners SPD and Greens are definitely willing to reform it of the concept would be there.

Economist Marcel Fratzscher: Politicians are currently failing to set the course sufficiently for the future. The state is more indebted today than it was in 2011, he says. “Not all debts are bad debts.”