Federal Finance Minister Christian Lindner (FDP) will appear at a citizens' dialogue in Essen. Lindner has chosen his role in the traffic light himself: he is the one who repeatedly distances himself from it.

The Union probably has bad memories of the government coalition it entered into with the FDP from 2009 to 2013. Today the founding of NATO is to be celebrated at a ceremony at the headquarters in Brussels. NATO sees itself as a community of values ​​of free democratic states. It is characteristic of democracies to be aware of their own weaknesses.