Overview

• ZDF brought the talk show back on 26 and 27 August after a four-week pause, with its Tuesday–Thursday schedule now reinstated.
• The 26 August panel of Matthias Miersch, Eva Quadbeck, Paul Ronzheimer, Elmar Theveßen and Frederik Pleitgen focused on the Ukraine war and prospective security pledges.
• Theveßen and Quadbeck warned that recent summit outcomes offered little reliability and that Europe lacks the capacity to shoulder large troop commitments as the U.S. presses for a greater European burden.
• SPD caucus leader Miersch would not exclude future German troop involvement under multinational arrangements, citing too many unknowns to make firm commitments.
• On 27 August, Robert Habeck appeared with Melanie Amann and Carlo Masala to discuss his plan to leave the Bundestag and broader Ukraine questions, as other major talk shows schedule their returns and Lanz maintains strong ratings.