Red-yellow vs. green
Who would have thought?
Two partners in the future traffic light coalition seem to get along particularly well - and they are not the two expected.
Not red-green, but of
all things SPD and FDP seem to have formed a political clique
.
A SPIEGEL team has reconstructed the course and sound of the traffic light negotiations in an exciting cover story to read: a surprising number of the stories from participants in the negotiations follow a similar pattern.
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New coalition members Lindner, Scholz, Baerbock, Habeck, Walter-Borjans, Esken
Photo: Clemens Bilan / EPA
The SPD and FDP would often quickly come to an agreement »while the Greens kept clashing with the Liberals or standing in their own way.
It was obviously exhausting - just differently exhausting than expected.
What one had expected: with a red-green alliance with a liberal appendage.
What is emerging instead: a social-liberal alliance with a green coat of paint. "
Balance of power in the future government: there can only be one
Dream team Esken & Lindner
SPD boss Saskia Esken - who I couldn't imagine harmoniously on a stage and in a coalition with Christian Lindner until I saw the scene this week - speaks in the SPIEGEL interview about her friendship with the FDP boss :
One has "been using" for a long time.
That emerged early in the election campaign, »when it became clear that we will now have to do with each other more often.
The other day he said: The two of us will soon be the last still sitting here as party leaders.
I found it interesting. "
Somewhere in the social-liberal sky, Willy Brandt and Walter Scheel are now sitting on their clouds and happily watching the goings-on of their successors.
The Greens, on the other hand, could soon be in a hangover mood.
A first test is the
delegates' conference of the Green Youth
, which meets this afternoon in Berlin.
Motto: "Let's organize - for politics from below." A recommendation is to be adopted for the member survey on the coalition agreement.
Oh, it probably all sounds more dangerous than it will be in the end.
Incidentally, Olaf Scholz will be performing in the evening at the Juso Federal Congress, which is taking place at the same time.
This is also a first test.
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SPD leader Esken
Photo: ODD ANDERSEN / AFP
In the new “course book”, the
sociologist Armin Nassehi
thankfully
charges
the alliance formation a little poetically after these prosaic weeks of negotiation: A coalition is the attempt to get unequal partners together
“to do something third”
.
In other words, something that was not "already predefined" in any of the coalitioning parts.
Huh.
Or, as Saskia Esken says: "We have all learned a lot and moved closer to each other, in the sense of: I want to understand what you mean when you express this opinion, which I previously found absurd."
SPD boss on the corona crisis: Will Karl Lauterbach Minister of Health, Ms. Esken?
Compulsory vaccination debate
Do you know this service of digital photo streams that is supposed to make you nostalgic every few days?
Discover what you did exactly three, four, five years ago or so, it says in the push message on the mobile phone display.
When I look at the photos of my life before the pandemic, I don't just get nostalgic.
But also sad.
How do we get out of this perceived corona endless loop?
Peter Dabrock, the former chairman of the German Ethics Council, recently pointed out a book title that should be understood programmatically: Hopeful, but not optimistic.
I like that.
Dabrock thinks to be hopeful, that means
a kind of defiant nonetheless
.
We don't give up.
And at some point it may be like the photo stream from yesteryear.
Even the bitter news from South Africa about the new virus mutation cannot change that.
Remain calm, examine, keep hope.
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Vaccination preparation
Photo: David Crigger / dpa
The ethicist Dabrock, by the way, argues decisively in favor of the general compulsory vaccination: All means must be taken to fight the pandemic, that is proportionality.
The minority of the unvaccinated take the majority of subjects in Geiselha
f
t
: "This endangers the freedom of 80 percent of the population.
This is an encroachment on the physical integrity of 80 percent of the population, "he told Deutschlandfunk.
Too bad that almost every major politician has ruled out such a compulsory vaccination in the past year and a half.
Now everyone has to climb down from their trees again.
There are enough good reasons for this, including constitutional ones.
In SPIEGEL, the
legal philosopher Christoph Möllers
explains it
like this: "Ultimately, all the doubters are about a kind of criticism of technology, something rather unliberal." In terms of freedom theory, it was always clear that "there is no right to endanger others or to paralyze society as a whole." There are functional relationships. "
Compulsory vaccination can cut the loop of the pandemic and bring freedom back for all.
The facility-related vaccination requirement, which has already been planned, primarily protects the vulnerable, but the pandemic remains for everyone.
So how do we want to live?
Pandemic policy and compulsory vaccination: Of people who fall and sink
Winner of the day ...
... is Nina Hagen.
For the big tattoo of the Bundeswehr in the courtyard of the Ministry of Defense in Berlin on Thursday, Chancellor Angela Merkel asked for the GDR song "You forgot the color film" by Hagen as a farewell.
Let's see if Merkel hums along when, after 16 years, they say: "Now nobody will believe us, how nice it was here haha, haha."
The latest news from the night
Canada wants to punish anti-vaccination protests in front of clinics draconian: Canada plans to criminalize the intimidation of health workers.
Prosecutor General Lametti has presented a plan according to which aggressive protests in front of hospitals can be severely punished.
Molnupiravir is significantly less effective than hoped: At the beginning of October, the pharmaceutical company Merck presented encouraging figures on the effectiveness of the corona pill molnupiravir.
He now has to correct it downwards.
Paris Archbishop Offers Resignation:
His behavior "could give the impression that there was an intimate relationship": The Parisian Archbishop Aupetit offered the Pope his resignation - and chose flowery words.
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I wish you a good start to the day.
Your Sebastian Fischer
