“Is Markus Söder sometimes for her like the embarrassing uncle at the coffee table?” Ask Caren Miosga the next Chancellor Friedrich Merz in her talk show on Sunday evening. Before that, she had shown a video: Söder, smirking and joking in the presentation of the coalition paper. Merz replies without hesitation: “No”. He wipes the moderator’s tank, Söder has his own humor form. Although you have to say: The person next to the embarrassing uncle at the coffee table also has their own humor.
Miosga and Merz also have their own form of humor in this show. But first Miosga takes the designated Chancellor to a three -quarters of an hour. Miosga seems incredibly well prepared, Merz always makes Merz to answer specifically – or to print around.
She addresses him on his bad survey results. He says he doesn’t look every day, but if they are so bad in a year, he will start to worry. Merz emphasizes: The coalition negotiations were a effort, “130, 140 pages of text in 4 weeks, they don’t just write that.”
Friedrich Merz wants to press asylum seekers under 100,000
Miosga stays stubborn when it comes to migration, tries to tune him up: how is that supposed to work? Merz laved. How many people can Germany record? Merz laves, Miosga hooks stuck, nails Merz: How big can this number be? He replies: “Don’t nail me. It must not be six digits.” So below 100,000 asylum applications a year.
It continues with tax reform, economic growth, customs policy, pension. The entire coalition agreement is subject to financing, so there are only measures if the state can afford it. Miosga asks: “Can it be that at the end of the legislative period people have less in their wallets?” Merz replies that he does not want to promise what he couldn’t think or want. “Better to start with modesty.”
The moderator even makes Merz set out: “Can homosexual couples under a chancellor Merz expect to be equated with the right to adoption?” she asks. Merz replies: “Yes.”
After 45 minutes of domestic policy in any façon, Miosga then comes to a no less important topic: “We have to talk about the USA” Merz, in silence he asked himself whether “we are still there.”
On (k) a golf game with Donald Trump
When asked about the erratic customs policy: “First of all, we have to perceive our own interests,” says Merz, and by that he means the interests of the EU. He coordinates with the Italian head of government Giorgia Meloni and is in exchange with Emmanuel Macron. And wants to fly to Washington himself before the summer vacation to speak to Trump.
“Do you also play golf with him?” asks Miosga. Merz can’t say that yet. Trump says he has a handicap of 2.8 – “What is yours?” Merz is adorned to answer that. “This is not for the public.”
He also wants to talk to Donald Trump about Ukraine. More than 30 civilians killed in the Russian rockets on Sunday. When asked about this, Merz calls this attack a “severe war crime against the civilian population.” Miosga hooks: “Then negotiating nothing?” Merz: Viktor Orban “was in Moscow and a children’s hospital was bombed in Kiev three days later.” Obviously, Putin, according to the CDU leader, sees our offer to speak as a weakness. The Ukrainian army had to get out of the defensive, “come in front of the situation” and that is why Germany must – after consultation with the European partners – to take part in deliveries of marching aircraft. So deliver the taurus.
Merz promises Ukraine delivery of Taurus
Towards the end of the show Merz takes a long way: “Pathos to show healthy national awareness, patriotism, that must also be possible in Germany?” Applause in the studio. Miosga: “So Rambo-Zambo?” Merz no longer responds to her. “We are a great country” and without optimism he could not work as Chancellor. The big cutlery.
Finally, Miosga Merz asks a question with which he certainly did not expect. When the passionate private pilot responds, he enhanced his arms. “I’m refusing to ask this question at the moment,” he says, grinning like someone who just pulled out of the affair. Miosga had pointed out him shortly afterwards: Can he as a Chancellor still fly with the plane himself? “You have to fly certain hours to keep the license,” the moderator throws in. Then Merz: “I have had her for a year since yesterday, and now let’s see what I can do.”
An evening on which the audience has received everything from pension to tax reform, from pathos to detailed knowledge. Miosga in particular cut a really good figure, was present and always had the right number, the fact, the quote at hand.
