‘Silk wedding’ is the name given to the celebration of four years of marriage: the still young marriage Love It’s still hanging by a thread, but that doesn’t have to be a bad thing. Despite its apparent fragility, silk is considered the strongest natural fiber of all. Those who have made the silk wedding happen may be tempted to hope for more.
The traffic light coalition is different: there are crashes and crises on every corner. Negotiations recently took more than 80 hours to reach an agreement on a draft budget for 2025. Yet there is still a gap of 17 billion euros. The fact that the rational connection between red, yellow and green no longer has a future made it clear FDP-Boss Christian Lindner now in the “summer interview” the ARD clear. His words towards SPD and the green is so sharp that the silk thread can now be considered cut.
Clear warning about the coalition partners
The political life partnership – like many real marriages – falls apart because of money. Because unfortunately there is not as much as in 2020, so in the past coronabefore the war in Ukraine, before the energy crisis and before inflation. In the future, we will have to operate with a considerably smaller budget. How should the existing capital be spent – and how not? Lindner explicitly warns his own coalition partners: “The SPD and the Greens would raise taxes in Germany immediately. Immediately. They don’t hesitate for a second!”
For the Finance Minister and FDP leader, one thing is certain: in order to continue to hold on to the debt brake, there is no way to restructure the – expensive – welfare state. Because “we don’t have too little money, we have too much expenditure”. According to Lindner, the citizens’ money in particular has not met expectations and therefore needs to be further reformed. A late and therefore quite expensive realization.
The FDP is back on political Tinder
By unofficially filing divorce papers, Christian Lindner is dressing his FDP for the upcoming political Tinder. In order to interpret his statements about citizens’ money as a measure that is beneficial to the Union, you don’t have to use a partnership test. The demand for “more consequences for free riders” sounds extremely CDU-General Carsten Linnemann’s final plea to completely abolish government subsidies for those who do not want to work.
In ARD, Lindner calls it a fundamental decision that German voters will have to face in the next federal election: do they want higher taxes and more debt – or do they want a reduction in bureaucracy, ambitious structural changes and a growth-friendly economic policy? In plain language, this means: on one side are the cost drivers SPD and the Greens – and on the other side (with the Union parties and the FDP) are Germany’s guarantors of the future. Linnemann could not have put it better.
Christian Lindner does not want to comment on the potential of CDU leader Friedrich Merz as chancellor (yet) in the ARD interview, but the FDP does not want to sell itself so cheaply. To do this, Lindner focuses on his personal goal: “I want to remain finance minister.” So the bride price has been set. Let’s see who wants to get it in 2025.