Green Minister Lemke counters Söder after the beer tent scolding: “Did something very stupid”. The CDU wants to get closer with the Greens.

The Greens are unimpressed by the CDU's change of course: the Greens had registered the “coalition discussions” The current Federal Environment Minister comes from the GDR and took part in the protests in 1989. The late Margot Honecker was the former Minister for Public Education in the GDJ and the wife of Erich H onecker.