Do you still remember the selfie that was supposed to stand for the good relations between the Greens and the FDP?
It showed Volker Wissing and Christian Lindner with Annaelna Baerbock and Robert Habeck.
Like friends meeting for dinner.
Everyone smiled.
The ideological trenches – apparently filled in.
Nine months and several crises later, things are rumbling between the coalition partners.
Timo Steppat
Editor in Politics.
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While the Greens are on a roll, winning state elections, and Habeck and Baerbock are among the most popular politicians, things are going downhill for the FDP.
Clear losses in the past elections, declining popularity of top politicians.
According to current polls, if there were elections on Sunday, the FDP would get between six and eight percent.
Disputes about the end of the combustion engine in 2035, because of the tank discount, because of new debts - and there are already signs of conflict potential for the fall.
Today we look at new and old issues.
With Jasper von Altenbockum, head of domestic policy at the FAZ and Eckart Lohse, head of the Berlin office at the FAZ Who really prevailed when it came to the tank discount?
That explains Brussels correspondent Hendrik Kafsack.
Also in conversation, FDP parliamentary group vice president Lukas Köhler.