Cum-Ex, Ukraine war, inflation: Chancellor Scholz under pressure before the summer press conference

Created: 08/11/2022 10:21 am

Gives his first summer press conference: Chancellor Olaf Scholz (archive image) © Kay Nietfeld/dpa

At the end of the political summer break, the chancellor is answering questions from the capital's media today - news ticker for Olaf Scholz's summer press conference.

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  : Olaf Scholz appears in front of the media

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  Scholz summer press conference

  : Consequences of the Ukraine war and the energy crisis

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  on : Union calls for clarification in bank affair

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Berlin – Shortly before his first summer press conference as chancellor, the Union increases the pressure on Olaf Scholz.

The SPD politician had to use his appearance on August 11 to clarify the cum-ex scandal surrounding the Hamburg Warburg Bank during his time as mayor, said the parliamentary union manager Thorsten Frei (CDU) to the

newspapers.

"Scholz's memory gaps from three meetings with bankers who evaded taxes cannot be explained," said Frei.

Now there is the "cash find of 200,000 euros in small notes that belong to his buddy Johannes Kahrs." Frei demanded: "Olaf Scholz has to explain himself."

Topics of the Scholz summer press conference - cum-ex, Ukraine war, inflation

Scholz wants to answer questions from the capital's journalists directly at a summer press conference on Thursday.

It is Scholz's first appearance of this kind as chancellor - former chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) had also regularly invited to summer press conferences.

Questions on all areas of domestic and foreign policy are usually asked on this occasion.

This year, the focus is likely to be on the consequences of the Russian war of aggression in Ukraine and the expected energy crisis.

But it is also to be expected that Scholz will be asked about the tax affair involving the Hamburg Warburg Bank.