Before the summer break, a committee of inquiry in the Bundestag on the-ex affair is to start. Nevertheless, the CDU/CSU accuses the SPD of blockade – and threatens to go to the Federal Constitutional Court.
The CDU and CSU want to clarify the role of SPD Chancellor Olaf Scholz as Hamburg's head of government at the time in dealing with the business of the local Warburg Bank. The Social Democrats reject large parts of the list of questions presented.