Schäuble's posthumous memoirs reveal a proposal to overthrow Merkel: “I was almost a little amused”. In a new book published this Monday, the veteran German politician reviews the CDU's illegal financing scandal, the austerity policy during the financial crisis and the impact of the refugee crisis in 2015.
The more than 600 pages of the volume are the legacy of a historic politician who died in December at the age of 81, who left politics in 2021, when the social democrat Olaf Scholz arrived at the Chancellery.