After the election of Friedrich Merz as Federal Chancellor in early May and the declaration of government a week later, the first meeting of the coalition committee on Wednesday was the third and last part of a political initiation rite, of which the message should arise in Berlin, a spring is also political. A traffic light coalition. Nothing to see. Also too great is the skepticism that the project of the new government has what it takes to contain the risks of social cohesion, which assume the crisis of the German economic model, the output dynamics of the social security systems and the demographic changes. And is too great the mistrust that is now contrary to a state, the resources of which are no longer in favor of the tasks that it has to cope with, which it has to do Let alone the often excessive expectations that are placed on him, also by his representatives. It would be all the more desirable that the new government could soon break through this vicious circle, even if it is only selectively. Crisis of the Ruhrberg building occurred. But that this economic crisis was mastered by the spirit of 1968 is not a guarantee that sixty years later there is a similar change. In any case, a new spirit is not yet in sight.
