Klingbeil goes on an international stage with a positive example
The black and red government is in office for a good two weeks, and posture notes are already being distributed. The opinion research institutes create their politician rankings almost every day with the popularity values of the cabinet members. This reliably leads Defense Minister Boris Pistorius after the SPDPolitician then becomes thin. Chancellor Friedrich Merz ((CDU) For example, where he was standing before the Bundestag election: far behind. But what are such surveys worth after such a short time?
The old rule, according to which the rulers are given 100 days for orientation and profiling, no longer seems to apply to the Union and the SPD. This is a bit of the actors themselves. For example, Merz gave the impression that he would do everything differently as a chancellor afterwards. The best -known example is his announcement that the boundaries « by way of directive » on the first day in office. As is well known, nothing came of it. However, the democratic process is to be able to make mistakes. An error is only bad if it is not admitted and corrected.
A political heavyweight in the Ministry of Finance?
Federal Finance Minister Lars Klingbeil showed how it can be done on his trip to the G7 meeting with his counterparts in Canada. The SPD politician dares to one of the most difficult and most complicated political terrain: financial policy without great practical experience. A single wrong word, a negligent remark can move stock exchanges and destroy assets in billions of bills. The financial agencies have created their own term for this: « Market-Moving News ». Taking this challenge and not pinching with the demonstrated humility deserves respect.
In front of Klingbeil, Jörg Kukies led the Ministry of Finance temporarily, above all it was in the hands of Christian Lindner (FDP). « Lightfoot » (lightfoot) is the word that comes to the first thing to think of the correspondent of a US news agency when he asked him to Lindner at the G7 meeting in Banff. At Klingbeil’s first international Appearance on a difficult summit terrain If the pure avoiding errors would have been a success. The Lower Saxony made more of it and showed the will to design. It is too early for a first balance sheet, it can follow after 100 days. But at the moment it seems quite possible that the ministerial legend Wolfgang Schäuble (CDU) has again moved into the Ministry of Finance.
