The Bundestag is now really entering the final budget spurt. Instead of sticking together, people now gather together in disobedience.

There is also apparently a huge gap in the budget for next year. The debate about the sense and nonsense of the debt brake is likely to pick up steam again soon. The votes of the AfD candidate in Saale-Orla district seem contradictory to SPIEGEL's editorial staff. The UN Secretary General lacks the credibility to clear up the Hamas scandal.