“No common language” – Lindner does not agree with the G20 final declaration. “All of this cannot leave us indifferent, it must also be discussed here,” he said.

There should be no habituation effect that would virtually normalize the war against Ukraine, Lindner said. Brazil wanted to ignore the geopolitical crises and shift the debate about them to meetings of foreign ministers and heads of state and government. They wanted to focus the finance ministers' discussions purely on economic policy issues.