Spahn says it is a difficult situation for a caretaker government with an emerging new majority. His department helped the political groups with formulations. However, the SPD, Greens and FDP did not take any of the suggested ways how the framework for action could be maintained for the federal states. He would like the countries to have more options to react.
Few would have predicted the dynamics of the past three weeks, and no one knew how it would develop. At the same time, it is just as correct that the law submitted is “better in case of doubt than when no regulation applies at all,” says Spahn.