Manuel Hagel: Bit extra than simply crap | EUROtoday

It’s a truism: If you wish to know what individuals actually suppose, it’s best to hearken to their slips of the tongue, to subordinate clauses and issues which might be carelessly thrown round. Bargoers and political professionals know this, and the linguist Victor Klemperer additionally knew it. “What someone wants to hide intentionally, whether from themselves or what they unconsciously carry within themselves: language brings it to light,” goes an often-quoted quote.

And that brings us to Manuel Hagel, the CDU politician who has an excellent probability of turning into the subsequent Prime Minister of Baden-Württemberg. For months he has made each effort to seem as an honest conservative with demonstrative calm. Just no harsh polemics, simply no grounds for assault. Now Green Party member of the Bundestag Zoe Mayer has unearthed an interview with Hagel from 2018. And hail has an issue.