Merkur editor-in-chief Georg Anastasiadis: Lisa Paus doesn't need 5,000 civil servants. Paus' unintentionally played into the hands of the FDP with her unworldliness, he says.
Further fattening up the state's redistribution bureaucracy will eventually become inexplicable to even the most patient voters, he adds. Whether the central social project of the Greens and SPD will be realized by 2025, as Paus undauntedly hopes, is as open as whether the traffic light will still be flashing.