Wednesday evening. A new edition of the program “Viertel nach Acht – the talk that makes the headlines”. New topics, new exciters, new arguments!
The guests this Wednesday:
- TV star and entertainer Thomas Gottschalk
- The federal chairwoman of the trade association DIE JUNGEN UNTERNEHMER Sarna Röser
- Editor-in-chief of Weltwoche Roger Köppel
- BILD TV boss Claus Strunz
- BILD boss Julian Reichelt
► What is special about the “Viertel nach Acht” format: The guests determine the topics themselves – everyone brings a “excitement” with them, which is then discussed by everyone.
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Children are instrumentalized in the election campaign
The first big excitement topic of the evening came from BILD boss Julian Reichelt: It was about the instrumentalization of children in the election campaign.
“Adults apparently no longer dare to campaign themselves and take to the streets for their positions,” says the BILD boss. And further: “That is why they instrumentalize those who are actually not allowed to vote”.
Reichelt’s appeal: “If adults have political views, they should have the guts, especially during election times, to express them themselves and not instrumentalize children for it.”
TV star and entertainer Thomas Gottschalk thinks this is a new kind of television. Nevertheless, Gottschalk thinks: “Sending someone with a button in their ear to a studio for candidates from the political scene – that is perfidious.”
“This is a political strategy reminiscent of a terrible regime,” said Weltwoche boss Roger Köppel, commenting on the election campaign with children. This shows a “degree of despair that should be alarming”.
Above all, Köppel criticizes the Greens for getting children to put pressure on the grandparents’ generation. “This is an escape from reality in a very primitive staging,” Köppel continues.
Background: A group of self-proclaimed climate savers (including “Fridays for Future”) encourages young people to write letters to their grandparents in order to manipulate their voting decisions.
Red-red-green and the German economy
The federal chairwoman of the trade association DIE JUNGEN UNTERNEHMER Sarna Röser fears the effects of a red-red-green government on the German economy.
“With these three parties in particular, Germany is choosing a huge risk for investments and jobs,” said Röser. One of the reasons for this is that the three election programs announce higher tax burdens, more bans and more inflexible labor laws.
Röser thinks Scholz and Baerbock should “create political clarity before the election and rule out an alliance with the left that is hostile to business.”
Roger Köppel is annoyed by Annalena Baerbock’s statement that every ban is a “growth driver”: “If you have a Green politician who thinks like this, then you don’t need the Left Party anymore because then you already have her in the Greens. And I say: The Greens are a sham. They are only green on the outside. Inside they are even darker red than the Left Party. “
BILD boss Julian Reichelt also does not consider bans to be “growth drivers”. He says: “Even without green bans, there are people who invent great things.”
EU unemployment benefits for Spaniards and Greeks
As Vice Chancellor he was blown away by the idea, as Chancellor he wants to implement it: Olaf Scholz wants to introduce EU unemployment insurance. The idea according to the future program of his party: If a country cannot pay its unemployed, it should be able to get money from a community pot in Brussels.
BILD TV boss Claus Strunz says: “Strictly speaking, we should pay unemployment benefits for Spaniards and Greeks.” Strunz demands: “Mr. Scholz, make politics according to the motto: more Bottrop, less Brussels.”
Entrepreneur Sarna Röser fears “that it will be really expensive for us”. And Roger Köppel also says: “It is basically a cheek that the Germans are expected to feed through this dysfunctional structure.”
BILD boss Julian Reichelt comments: “I think in the long run we can decide: The EU will continue to exist and then we will pay significantly more for the EU than before, or we will let the living conditions in the EU drift apart and then the EU will too.” Drifting apart.”
From father to sperm donor
The last exciting topic of the evening: “Switzerland is getting rid of the father!” Instead, the Swiss marriage law now says “sperm donor”.
Editor-in-chief of Weltwoche Roger Köppel says: As a man you are now being “downgraded from father to sperm donor – to a kind of farm animal”.
Köppel and warns: “I tell you, this will also come to Germany!”
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