Overview

• The ZDF talk show aired on Tuesday, September 2 at 23:15 as episode 2118, streamed live and now available in the ZDF-Mediathek.
• Guests were Bavaria’s Minister President Markus Söder, taz journalist Anna Lehmann, and 17-year-old student Otto Ellerbrock.
• Söder argued for regionalizing the inheritance tax to give federal states more leeway as part of broader tax and social reforms.
• Ellerbrock said voluntary service in the Bundeswehr deserves respect but he rejects compulsory conscription.
• Lehmann examined Söder’s proposals and the tensions with Chancellor Friedrich Merz, with Germany’s Israel policy also discussed.