Actually, Barbara and Oliver Rose are separated. But both refuse categorically to leave the common house. Instead, the former couple decides they’d rather make each other’s lives miserable.
They resort to all sorts of dirty tricks and tactics – from constant quarreling and insults to manipulative games, everything is included. The consequences are devastating.
Not only do they both suffer from the constant stress they are responsible for, but soon friends and family do too. At some point, the situation also affects her work, which, like her relationship, threatens to descend into chaos.
This “War of the Roses” from 1989, starring Kathleen Turner and Michael Douglas, is increasingly becoming a role model for the red-green-yellow coalition in the Bundestag. What Habeck and Lindner are doing with and without Scholz is no longer a black comedy, but already bears the traits of an absurd theater.
Building energy law reveals cracks in the traffic light
How could it come to this? Especially when you consider how dynamic, how cordial, how progressive the future coalition partners came after their negotiations in November 2021. Habeck, Scholz, Lindner – how they smile.
Nobody in the cabinet laughed on Wednesday when the second amendment to the Building Energy Act (GEG) was passed with the approval of the four FDP ministers, but also included a protest note from Federal Finance Minister Linder in the minutes. At least not at this point. Except for Robert Habeck maybe – internally. The Vice Chancellor can confidently feel like a winner.
Apart from a bit of “technology openness”, which is more theoretical, the liberals were not able to negotiate too much out of the first draft up to the cabinet bill, let alone stop it.
Much to the annoyance of some FDP MPs. They vented their anger to party leader Linder before the vote.
FDP announces changes in the Bundestag
The FDP announced that they would now put pressure on the parliamentary process, which Habeck would prefer to see in the towel before the summer break. “It’s still a hard piece of work and we’ll take our time for that,” announced the building policy spokesman for the FDP parliamentary group, Daniel Föst, to FOCUS online.
His parliamentary colleague Michael Kruse says: “I’m looking forward to the intensive deliberations on this law, because we can show here in Parliament how important our work is for the people of Germany.”
This process is at least unusual. Agree and reject at the same time. These should be exciting parliamentary debates. And what actually happens if the FDP is still dissatisfied after the final reading?
Does the group abstain then? Or does she agree with the opposition against it? In that case, the store would blow up in your face, which doesn’t require clairvoyant abilities.
Climate protection law on the brink?
It doesn’t get any more absurd than that. one would think so. But be careful: It was not until the end of March that the SPD, Greens and FDP also agreed to amend the climate protection law at their marathon coalition committee meeting.
According to this, the annual greenhouse gas emission targets for the transport and building sectors, for example, should be able to be offset against each other. The Greens traffic expert Stefan Gelbhaar said to the “Redaktionsnetzwerk Deutschland” (RND) this week that his party would not agree to a legal reform that could be collected again in Karlsruhe.
His parliamentary colleague Lisa Badum blew the same horn: “I will not sign any unconstitutional climate protection law,” she also told the RND.
FDP warns Greens to be disciplined
The reaction to the announced blockade followed immediately: “The Greens should not torpedo jointly taken resolutions, but rather work constructively on climate protection projects in our country,” demanded the climate policy spokesman for the FDP parliamentary group in the Bundestag, Olaf in the Beek, at the request of fr.de. He warned the coalition partner to be disciplined.
As a spectator you want to laugh, but it gets stuck in your throat. After all, the drama that is unfolding before our eyes is reality. And it’s not the local council of Hinterhuglhapfing, but the federal government, which somehow affects everyone in the country.
The question arises: How capable is our government to act? It is already clear that there is not much left of the awakening, of the magic of the beginning, of the self-proclaimed “coalition for progress”.
It would also be interesting to know what the chancellor really thinks about his increasingly fragile alliance and how he intends to keep things together. Be silent!
At the end of the “War of the Roses”, Barbara and Oliver are lying in the entrance hall of their house, to finish the story from the beginning, after falling down while fighting the chandelier in the stairwell. Even at the moment of death, Barbara pushes away her husband’s outstretched hand.
