Overview
- The ARD talk show is scheduled for Sunday, March 1, 2026, at 21:45 on Das Erste, with the episode to be available afterward in the ARD Mediathek.
- Earlier listings presented the topic as a one‑on‑one with SPD chair and labor minister Bärbel Bas on whether the party will pursue major social‑state reforms.
- That planned discussion was to include economist Clemens Fuest of the ifo Institute and journalist Daniel Friedrich Sturm of the Tagesspiegel capital bureau.
- The context for the originally announced topic is the SPD’s poor 2025 Bundestag result and polling near 15 percent, alongside fiscal pressures from rising social spending, demographic change, and a weak economy.
- The Berliner Morgenpost later reported the broadcast would switch to “Krieg in Nahost – stürzt jetzt das Regime im Iran?” with guests Omid Nouripour, Peter Neumann, Azadeh Zamirirad, and Annett Meiritz, citing events it describes as an Israeli‑U.S. strike on Iran.