Ice Age: Robert Habeck and Christian Lindner bicker over the household.
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The letters that Economics Minister Robert Habeck and Finance Minister Christian Lindner wrote to each other are disharmony that has been put on paper. The Vice-Chancellor has thus reduced his chances of receiving more funds.
The letters that Economics Minister Robert Habeck and Finance Minister Christian Lindner wrote to each other this week are disharmony put on paper. This begins with the distanced address (“Dear Mr. Colleague”) and ends with mutual instructions, admonitions, warnings.
Lindner has had to put up with a lot so far: initially the daring operation of diverting unneeded loans into a side budget for the transformation of the country, for which the coalition partner in the Ministry of Economic Affairs needs a lot of money; the special fund for the Bundeswehr in order to be able to finance new defense costs at the turn of the century, the 200 billion double boom in the double crisis (corona, energy). After three years in which the debt rule was suspended, it applies again. And that is Lindner’s trump card.