Finance Minister Christian Lindner and his party colleagues are putting pressure on the traffic light coalition. Tesla's electric cars are selling particularly poorly in Germany.
The high fuel prices have to do with the uncertain situation in the Middle East. The prospects for global economic growth have improved due to good economic data from the U.S. and China, which are likely to increase demand for raw material oil, says SPIEGEL's Stefan Schultz.. The writers Benjamin von Stuckrad-Barre and Martin Suter announced today that they will publish a book with conversations.