A summary of the first year

Taking stock after a year of traffic light coalition is a tricky business. After all, the SPD, Greens and FDP still have three years to go before the next federal election. A long time in which a lot can be done.

And if CDU leader Friedrich Merz continues to polemicize, it could even be seven years. Because from a bird’s eye view, the work of the coalition under Chancellor Olaf Scholz looks pretty decent in the first twelve months.

SPD leader Lars Klingbeil recently gave the coalition’s work a three plus. There are no grades here, but a written assessment. One thing should be said in advance: All the nice plans in the 177-page coalition agreement of the self-proclaimed “progressive coalition” became obsolete with the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine on February 24th