Unlike Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Economics Minister Robert Habeck does not usually answer in a clichéd manner.
He is visibly thinking about the questions and his answers.
This is not an unpleasant move for a politician in the smooth and expected world of images.
Of course, it ultimately depends on the content.
And here the most popular German politician in the polls sometimes seems out of this world.
No one needs to have an answer to every detailed question, especially not a minister.
But he should give the impression of being in the middle of life, including his departments.
The sympathetic nature that Habeck otherwise tends to characterize turns into a remarkable aloofness when he states that he hardly ever gets to have breakfast, let alone get bread rolls.
And if the economics minister gives the impression that closing a business is somehow without consequences.
With all the natural and tried helpfulness and closeness that Habeck tries to establish: Here he only shows that he is not down-to-earth.
And his otherwise vaunted pragmatism seems more like ideological obstinacy in the energy debate.
But none of this has to have a lasting effect on his sympathy values.
Green is still primarily a way of life.
And a place.
If you are on the right side, you can do anything.