"Have a few other problems": Merz attacks Anne Will on gender issues - studio guest and audience stunned

“How do we want to live?” Asks Anne Will.

But for Friedrich Merz, gender is not a future issue: "We have a few other problems at the moment!"

• Friedrich Merz

  attacks

  Anne Will

  on the gender issue: There are currently other problems in the world.

• Olaf Scholz

  supports the expansion of electric mobility, hydrogen and renewable energies with state funds amounting to 500 billion euros.

• Annalena Baerbock

  wants more money for the digital expansion of schools and for the health sector.

“Anne Will” - these guests discussed the future 

• Olaf Scholz (SPD)

  - Federal Minister of Finance and SPD candidate for Chancellor

• Annalena Baerbock (Alliance '90 / The Greens)

  - party leader

• Friedrich Merz (CDU)

  - Vice President of the Economic Council of the CDU, candidate for CDU chairmanship

"Anne Will" already rehearsed the primary campaign

Berlin - "All three claim to want to and to be able to lead this country",

moderates

her discussion round, so that the suspicion does not arise that this is already a

.

Tonight it's about the

!

The group gets impetus from a quote from Wolfgang Schäuble that comes from an interview with

.

"We have to use the

The concept is clear: Corona should not be seen as a

but as an

.

- until half a year ago chairman of the supervisory board of the world's largest financial service provider "Blackrock" - reacts irritably when Anne Will asks him about his former employer.

He does not want to do the reputation of the "capitalist" and implores that "Blackrock" is one of the most future-oriented

.

He liked working for her.

Friedrich Merz demands tax breaks for entrepreneurs from “Anne Will”

However, Merz immediately makes it clear who his

- if he should be elected - would support:

for entrepreneurs and medium-

companies!

Start-ups are to be exempted from tax for ten years so that they can set up in

and stay here ...

Steep template for Green Party leader

, who pulls from the leather: "Large digital corporations are profiting insane from the crisis because they do not pay any capital tax!".

And by that means

with EU headquarters, such as

and

.

The Green leader denounces: "Profits can be shifted from one country to another and financial companies can

bet

against

." "Not a little" something has to change, but "radically".

Federal Finance Minister

refers to laws that are currently being initiated with the Organization for Economic Cooperation and

that would enable

international

and a global concept for the minimum taxation of companies.

The focus is also on digital business models on international platforms - but that has to be negotiated globally, is international, not national politics. 

We're about to start.

We start the ARD theme week and ask: How do we want to live?

Our guests: @OlafScholz, @ABaerbock and @_FriedrichMerz.

Here's the @ DasErste-Livestream: https://t.co/vjioEAFnOl #AnneWill #WieLeben

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Friedrich Merz advocates a return to the "debt brake" for "Anne Will"

But Baerbock talks himself into a

.

Throws phrases such as “general competitiveness”, “Germany as an aluminum industry location” and “major restructuring” in the round.

Olaf Scholz reacts coolly:

formulates and thus has the laughs of Merz and Anne Will on his side.

The federal minister calculates that the federal government has anchored 500 billion euros in the budget for investments over a period of ten years and names the

on which the federal government is betting: renewable energies, electrification in mobility, hydrogen economy.

The goal is still the climate-neutral economy by 2050.

Anne Will wants to know: "Who pays the 'oomph'?" Merz wants the

remains.

Baerbock can't let that sit on him.

She sees the money in the public sectors at risk: digitization in

, the improvement of

- you would especially now see how much demand there would be!

"If we talk about tax breaks at all, then we have to do it for the young companies, for the start-ups," says @_FriedrichMerz at #AnneWill.

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“Anne Will” (ARD Talk): When it comes to “gender”, Merz's collar bursts

At the end of the day the stimulating word that annoys many:

.

If Olaf Scholz was initially calmly described by Anne Will as a “feminist”, he etched back when he received scornful laughter from Merz.

Scholz: "Men use power methods to always laugh funny when it comes to

."

It would "not understand what is meant with it."

Merz initially countered cynically, as usual, but relaxed and cool.

But when Baerbock

wanted to

teach him a lesson in

, Merz broke the collar: “Today,

the largest free trade zone in the world was created

in

” - it comprises 2.2 billion people and around a third of global economic output.

He came here on the show to talk about really important things and now has to

deal

with the

.

#AnneWill: "How do you feel about gender?"

#Merz: "I came into this show with the assumption that we would really discuss the question of how we will live in 10 years".

Can you say even more clearly that women do not appear in your own "we"?

- Christopher (@JanzChris_) November 15, 2020

"At the moment we have a few other problems that we have to solve," replies Merz, also in the direction of

and her editorial team, who have put gender on the agenda for future topics.

“What will happen in

in the next ten years

?

We'd have to discuss that, ”said Merz, touched emotionally.

It is a “bold idea” to talk about gender and thereby completely ignore “what is happening in the

”.

For Baerbock, as for many ARD viewers, incomprehensible: For them, gendering is a “system question”, you have to know which

you are defending as Germany and Europe.

"The fact is, as of today, in 2020, that we will have structural discrimination," says @ABaerbock at #AnneWill.

#WieLeben pic.twitter.com/P11rwyONKY

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Conclusion of the "Anne Will" broadcast on the future

The absurdity of the old days of interrupting each other

has now been overcome

in

.

It is talked out.

That is a great advantage.

The fact that people digress from time to time and that the talk is used to announce their own concerns that are not necessarily related to the topic is still customary.

The topic was the future - but most of the talk was about corona and national debt - that was pretty much the

.

Real

was actually only due to the selection of topics that Anne Will's editors had ready for the politicians.

Friedrich Merz could hardly believe that one was discussing "creditors" in legal formulations.

It seems like there is still a lot of

for future broadcasts ...