The Federal Chancellor spoke of a "turning point" with regard to the war of annihilation that the Russian army is waging in Ukraine on the orders of Vladimir Putin.

It remains to be seen what this “turning point in time” means.

Are 100 billion euros really being spent on upgrading the Bundeswehr?

Will an energy transition succeed that means no longer buying gas and oil from a war criminal?

Or is Olaf Scholz and his coalition more concerned with the question of what citizens can “expect” without losing out in the polls?

In any case, in our country, even in the headlines, things are very quickly about what is always about after three talk shows: about ourselves destroy Ukraine.

In Berlin and in the state capitals, politicians are putting together packages to relieve German citizens of the rising costs.

The federal government is offering a flat-rate energy price, a three-month reduction in the energy tax on fuel, support for families and low-income earners, and cheap tickets for buses and trains in order to mitigate the consequences of the “turning point”.

That would be a small caesura

The Green Finance Minister of Schleswig-Holstein came up with an idea that really marked a turning point, at least temporarily.

Monika Heinold is not only reallocating 400 million euros from a Corona emergency loan in the state budget, which will be used to look after Ukrainian displaced persons.

She proposes suspending the broadcasting fee for half a year.

“We need a quick and unbureaucratic solution.

My proposal relieves the people in the country quickly, regardless of whether they drive a car, bike or bus," said Heinold of the "Bild" newspaper.

Child benefit should be increased, social welfare recipients who do not pay broadcasting fees should be relieved in other ways.

The bottom line is that Heinold's proposal, with which she is of course also helping herself in the current state election campaign, would bring every contributor 110.16 euros.

That's not a little.

The symbolic value should not be underestimated either: the public service broadcasters take in more every year (eight billion from the contribution, around nine billion euros in total) and pride themselves on being the pillars of democracy.

It wouldn't be amiss for the institutions, since many are worse off not being among the ever-better earners.

The MDR alone recorded an increase of 35 million (to 816 million) euros between 2020 and 2021, as reported by the "Mitteldeutsche Zeitung".

Giving up for half a year would be a sign, even if it's not a turning point.