When CDU parliamentary group vice Jens Spahn reports on “current developments in economic policy” on Wednesday in the Bundestag, interest is as great as it has not been for a long time. Since it is clear that his party colleague Carsten Linnemann does not go to the cabinet as an economic minister, Spahn has been a candidate for this post. He was negotiating the coalition agreement for the CDU, was part of the crucial 19s group. Now he tries to smooth the waves after the public hack between the Union and the SPD via tax cuts and minimum wages. “We have a common understanding that we need the economic turnaround.” There will be no further traffic light policy, but “market economy industrial policy”. Spahn talks like an economic minister. He leaves open to the end whether he wants to be it.
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