Special assets and debt brake: slippery through the Basic Law

Let the debt brake in the Basic Law and at the same time create a special fund of 500 billion euros – is that possible? What the Constitutional Court might think of it.

Sahra Wagenknecht considers the exploratory results of Union and SPD to be completely inadequate and therefore predicts an increase in dissatisfaction in the country. Horst Seehofer accuses the Union of "worth breaking." All developments in the live ticker.

In the famous fairy tale "The Emperor's new clothes" there is a crucial moment when a child speaks out the obvious truth that all adults ignore: that the emperor is naked. Before, everyone had thought that the clothes that only clever people should be visible must be present. The end of the illusion that had been talked into was a rather embarrassing moment for all those involved. There is no such moment in relation to the debt brake. The child …