“Escape in Chains” is the name of a Hollywood film from the late 1950s. In it, two convicts united in heartfelt animosity are forced to escape together from their prison because the guards have previously tied them together with a steel shackle. Stanley Kramer, the director, manages to keep the suspense of this escape at the highest level for 96 minutes. Will Chancellor Olaf Scholz do something similar?
The SPD, FDP and Greens have been tied together for four years. They don’t have to flee, but move forward in an orderly manner. But the ménage-à-trois is also explosive because the three partners are only snarlingly happy with each other, like to kick the neighbor in the ass and are jealously anxious to be in the voter’s favor before the others. Boredom will therefore remain a foreign word in this association and a lot will still happen, but one thing will not: the three parties will not separate – no matter how many cat heads they give each other. They have no other choice. Shackle is shackle.
For the chancellor, the purpose of the Meseberg retreat was to remind the partners of the chain they wear on their ankles under the rustling of the beech trees on Lake Huwenow.
Now there is calm. Other results? They should come. Scholz neither unpacked the third relief package in Meseberg nor talked about the necessary extension of the lifetime of the nuclear power plants. While the days are flying by in the face of galloping energy costs, there is no need to rush the government. You can see what comes out when the draft for the gas allocation is written, whoops. Care is required. It takes time. There is only one thing left to say about the work of the government: not every Pegasus is a fiery steed. Let’s hope he doesn’t stay a chicken.
