The stakes are so high that I don’t think the Greens and SPD should risk putting themselves in the uncomfortable position of opposing extra defence spending because they did not get broader concessions out of the CDU on the debt brake, even if it is a fiscal nonsense.
I’m not defending the debt brake at all. Just questioning the likelihood of negotiating a deal on the whole of it that gets through before the next Bundestag sits. (Whereas an agreement on the *really really* important thing which is currently on the table is, I dare say it, oven ready)
In that you assume that defense spending is more important than anything else. That my well hold true at a pinch for Green voters, but it is most definitely not the case for SPD voters.
I can understand the frustration outside of Germany, but this solves nothing in Germany itself.
You have to use your power when you have it. (That is the primary reason why the Green party is such a flop and the result represents a once in my lifetime opportunity to get rid of the debt brake).
If the stakes are so high, why can’t the CDU make concessions? What kind of logic is this that puts the onus for solving a problem that the CDU helped create on everybody else?
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I can understand the frustration outside of Germany, but this solves nothing in Germany itself.