Overview
- Maybrit Illner leads Thursday’s debate under the banner “compromise or capitulation,” with Norbert Röttgen, Ralf Stegner, Ukraine’s ambassador Oleksii Makeiev and scholar Nicole Deitelhoff discussing Trump’s 28-point plan.
- Markus Lanz opened the week’s focus on the proposal with a panel that showcased clashing views, as Moritz Gathmann called European criticism overblown and Christian Mölling warned the plan would weaken Ukraine.
- On Tuesday’s Maischberger, Sanna Marin labeled the US plan “a catastrophe,” joining Andrij Melnyk in criticizing any settlement seen as forcing concessions from Kyiv.
- Domestic politics stayed in the frame on Maischberger, where Manuela Schwesig defended the government’s pension package on Tuesday and Karl Lauterbach and Monika Schnitzer revisited the rentenstreit on Wednesday alongside discussion of Europe’s role.
- Lanz’s Wednesday edition featured Eli Sharabi recounting 491 days in Hamas captivity, underscoring the week’s broader use of prime-time talk as a forum for war and policy testimony, with episodes available in ARD/ZDF Mediatheks.