SPIEGEL editor-in-chief Dirk Kurbjuweit advocates using all instruments of defensive democracy against the AfD, including the legal ones. Annalena Baerbock was once the favorite of the Greens, it had a lot to do with her roots in the party and parliamentary group.

Today love has grown cold. The Chancellery currently seems out of reach for the Greens - and perhaps that is precisely the reason that Baerbocks is showing less and less consideration for her party.