Overview
- The episode airs Thursday at 22:15 on ZDF, streams afterward in the ZDF-Mediathek, and repeats Friday at 16:00 on phoenix.
- Guests are Reiner Haseloff (CDU, Saxony-Anhalt), Alexander Schweitzer (SPD, Rhineland-Palatinate), economist Veronika Grimm, and journalist Robin Alexander.
- The broadcast carries the title “Kein Aufschwung, kein Vertrauen – Zerreißprobe für Schwarz‑Rot?”.
- Discussion centers on pension changes, the combustion‑engine phaseout, the heating law, and Bürgergeld under a strained budget, with the coalition’s ability to reach common solutions in focus as leaders hold crisis talks.
- The Council of Economic Experts’ latest report sets a bleak backdrop of stagnation, weak investment, and shrinking key industries.