Why the federal state wins in the crisis

Berlin When the people between the North and Baltic Seas cast their votes on Sunday, they are not only voting on the work of the incumbent state government of the CDU, Greens and FDP. Above all, the first Jamaican coalition can advertise prospects that would probably not exist in Schleswig-Holstein without Russia’s war of aggression in Ukraine.

With the war and the approaching end of Russian energy imports, the small federal state is moving into the focus of Germany’s security of supply. It’s about the question of how Germany can quickly develop alternative energy sources, produce more green electricity itself and, on top of that, increase its defense capability again.

After the Swedish battery manufacturer Northvolt also decided to build a battery cell factory on the west coast, all of the country’s growth indicators are pointing upwards. Prime Minister Daniel Günther (CDU) was delighted in March. The settlement was “the greatest industrial-political success in decades”.