Christian Lindner is currently working on the federal budget for 2025. Lindner's savings plan is already meeting resistance.
The FDP has lost members and elections, fallen out with its coalition partners. Jan Redmann, the CDU's top candidate for state elections in Brandenburg, weighs his words cautiously on the subject of Taurus, the Union's own weapon of choice in the Ukraine. The Taurus issue has been a thorn in the side of the German Chancellor Olaf Scholz for weeks.