Maischberger: “If you want to do reasonable politics … that is only possible with us,” advises the left-wing boss | EUROtoday

A brand new Chancellor, an outdated battle: in Politk-Talk Maischberger, overseas coverage realism and ideological rules of rules met on Tuesday evening-a few days after Friedrich Merz’s taking workplace and in the midst of Europe’s most diplomatic second in a very long time. CDU overseas politician Norbert Röttgen and left-wing boss Jan van Aken mentioned peace initiatives, cooperation and prohibitions.

The BR journalist Julia Ruhs, the “Spiegel” writer Markus Feldenkirchen and comic Oliver Kalkofe, commented on the present political occasions on the panel. With the ex-Siemens supervisor Heinrich von Pierer, moderator Sandra Maischberger spoke, amongst different issues, concerning the new federal authorities.

Since 2018, the Union’s incompatibility determination has been over. In phrases of content material, one is incompatible, Röttgen defended the choice, “but there are need to clash in democracy.” The determination is formally legitimate for coalitions and likewise frequent legal guidelines. “Working together in parliament is a matter of course,” stated the Vice Group Chairman.

Van Aken replied succinctly: “This is her problem, they finally tied up their hands.” He remained calm and positioned his punch line nearly mockingly: “But if you want to make reasonable politics in the future, for example because you want to reform the debt brake: that is only possible with us.” A reform of the debt brake wants a two-thirds majority-arithmetically the left or the AfD.

Shortly after the chancellor election, Friedrich Merz traveled to Paris and Warsaw, then with the French Prime Minister Macron and the Polish Prime Minister Tusk to Kiev in Ukraine. Van Aken surprisingly praised this: “It was right what he did there.” But then he criticized: “I would have liked to go to Beijing.

Röttgen did not leave that. “They characterize China as a bullet, however we now have to do it ourselves.” Within a few days after Merz had been elected Chancellor, Europe was “extra seen and with an united will.” And even Trump was gained.

Kiev and European allies had called for an unconditional, at least 30-day ceasefire at the weekend, with the threat of harder sanctions if that did not happen. So far, Moscow has refused. Instead, peace talks between Russia and Ukraine could be discussed for the first time this week.

The Russian President Putin had proposed direct peace talks in Istanbul in response to the EU’s diplomatic initiative. Turkey had immediately been ready to align the meeting. Now the Ukrainian President Selenskyj announced that he will travel to Turkey on Thursday.

Van Aken was skeptical that Vladimir Putin will actually travel to Istanbul for talks. “Because there is no such thing as a lever, and nothing will change with out lever.” But these levers are very good, countered Röttgen. The economic sanctions would very well hit Putin and further arms deliveries to Ukraine, until ultimately towards the Taurus marching aircraft, are not yet off the table, said the CDU man.

And then the highlight of the show: The stock market value of Rheinmetall has been increasing for months, the upgrade and arms deliveries are good for the armaments giant business-and: Left boss Jan van Aken has two Rheinmetall shares. He bought it in order to be able to make nonsense at a general meeting. He didn’t say whether he did that. The moral index finger in one hand, the right of shareholders in the other, that shaped.

Van Aken and Röttgen also spoke about a possible AfD ban. The left-wing chairman clearly demands a ban so that the party “can not use democracy for its abolition”. Röttgen agreed, albeit with a legal reservation: it must be ensured that the prohibition procedure with almost quite certainty is successful. A failed ban on the Federal Constitutional Court is fatal.

Old Federal President Christian Wulff also spoke out for a ban on the AfD a week ago and made a comparison with the Hitler party: “A ban 1930 of the NSDAP may have saved the Second World War and saved 6 million Jews.” He called for “combating the AfD to water, land and air.”

Journalist Feldenkirchen warned of such comparisons. “At Hitler, it was crystal clear that he needed to destroy an enormous ethnic group, not designation, remigration. I do know no comparable goals from Ms. Weidel or who else is there.”

“The Union has now additionally received it”

One day after the Chancellor’s election, Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt (CSU) had launched a package of measures for migration, including sharper rejections from asylum seekers at the land borders. In addition, deportation should be deported, and family reunification should also be suspended or limited. Dobrindt also announced an initiative to tighten European asylum policy.

Julia Ruhs from Bavarian Radio called the procedure an “asylum seeker”. There is thus the external effect that fewer people come to Germany at all, but also inwards, to show that not only the AfD wanted to act, but also “the Union has now underestimated it.”

In the end, Heinrich von Pierer, long-time Siemens boss and an economic chief consultant under Angela Merkel, brought a quiet, loosened tone into the debate. The 84-year-old praised Merz’s new government cabinet: “Instead of counting on the confirmed politicians, a whole lot of experience was introduced out of the economic system.” However, these folks must show that they can’t solely lead an organization but additionally a ministry.