CDU leader Merz doesn't like the Greens: spring fever between the FDP and the Union. The strange black-green on-off relationship has once again reached the status of "currently separated" Nobody is more made for each other than liberals and Christian Democrats, politicians from both parties enthuse.

Hope is spreading in the Union that the Liberals could give up their current partners, the SPD and the Greens. These are scenes of a marriage that now make a premature end to the traffic lights seem much more likely than a divorce by the voter.