German FAZ: You are not here at “Wish you something” 009225

He said, the probably future Chancellor Friedrich Merz at the end of March about the coalition negotiations of the Union and SPD, “the feeling that some working groups – not with everyone – is the heading: ‘Wish you something’. He is not the only one who talks like this. Similarly, Carsten Brzeski, chief economist for Germany and Austria at ING-Bank, now analyzed the finished coalition agreement: “When looking at economic policy, it is above all a ‘wish you’, with many good elements, which will most likely fail to do the financial feasibility.” VW CEO Oliver Blume, Bavaria Munich sports director Max Eberl and the still incumbent Federal Minister of Economics Robert Habeck also used the formula in the past six months. And in particular, SPD Minister of Labor Hubertus Heil has repeatedly explained to changing topics for years that “wished for what” is not “the time of ‘wishes’.
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