How much longer will we Germans tolerate the lies and deceit of our politicians?

What was that again, what caused the traffic light coalition in Germany to fail early on? Yes, that’s right, the FDP opposed the billion-euro debt-financed Germany Fund, which the then Minister of Economic Affairs Robert Habeck wanted to set up in order to achieve his climate targets. This led to a vote of confidence in Chancellor Scholz. After Chancellor Scholz faced the vote of confidence in parliament, parliament withdrew its confidence in him. This meant that elections had prematurely to be held in Germany. Germany has now voted. The CDU/CSU received the most votes. They celebrated their victory, despite the fact that this result was the second worst for the CDU/CSU since the Federal Republic of Germany was founded. Their lead candidate, Friedrich Merz, promised a lot before the election. One of the key promises was adherence to the debt brake. The debt brake, anchored in the Basic Law, would not be touched. Because of the so-called “firewall” against the AfD, which Merz also invoked, he approached the SPD to forge a coalition agreement with them.

Where is trustworthiness, good faith?

But now what almost always happens in Western democracies has happened: What do my election promises matter to me? Mr Merz very soon said that he would campaign for the debt brake to be lifted. What had happened virtually overnight? What are Mr Merz’s reasons for this step, which is naturally supported by his future coalition partner, the SPD, the chancellor maker? According to Mr Merz, Germany needs a special fund of 500 billion euros to repair and further expand its infrastructure. Another stepchild is the Bundeswehr. Its condition is worrying. It is not in a position to fulfil its mission of national defence. This applies to both equipment and personnel. In order to remedy this, the debt brake for armaments should be suspended. A further 500 billion has been targeted for this, an amount that can be increased indefinitely by lifting the debt brake.

The unnecessary dilemma
of the chancellor candidate

Chancellor candidate Merz is in a dilemma. His vote base is very weak. He needs the votes of the SPD for his chancellorship. But now he has got himself into even greater difficulties without need. Still in the previous legislative period, Merz wanted to get an amendment to the Basic Law through parliament. An amendment to the Basic Law requires a two-thirds majority. To this however, Mr Merz also needed the votes of the Greens. But that did not bother Mr Merz. The earlier “Never with the Greens” in the shortest time turned into a hundred-billion-euro gift to the Greens. During the reading of the new law in the Bundestag, another “gift” was added to the Greens: The fixation of the green climate targets in the Basic Law. It can be seen as a novelty that party-political targets are included in the Basic Law. Such formulations have no place there. They are subject to the implementing laws that are passed in parliament. The Green parliamentary group rejoiced. Without any effort on their part, they had achieved more than at the time of the traffic light coalition. And this was only possible because they tipped the scales, i.e. without these blackmailed concessions to the Greens, Mr Merz would lack precisely these decisive votes for the amendment to the Basic Law. What a despicable haggling! The voter can indeed not be treated more disrespectfully. The voters’ vote went in a completely different direction.
  The sum for both items reach the dizzying amount of almost one trillion euros. It is to be paid for by the taxpayer. Such a mountain of debt drives up interest rates and inflation. What already requires an incredible effort in good economic times can no longer be achieved in times of deindustrialisation, the exodus of companies, the slump in the SME sector and rising private insolvencies. This project particularly affects the central issue of the financial constitution. This is not being discussed. It is no coincidence that a Russian newspaper mockingly ran the headline: “BlackRock becomes chancellor!”

No two-thirds majority
in the new Bundestag

The debt brake is enshrined in the Basic Law. If it is to be cancelled, a two-thirds majority is required. The amendment to the Basic Law had to be done in a hurry, not on the merits, but because the parliamentary term was coming to an end. To have an amendment to the Basic Law made during this transitional period by a government that has been voted out of office, initiated by the leader of the opposition in the German Bundestag, cannot be surpassed in terms of disrespect for the democratic legitimacy of the new Bundestag; it is a shabby trick. This has not been common practice up to now. Critics argue that if the old parliament were to legislate after the election, the new MPs’ right to make decisions would be violated. The principle of democratic legitimisation basically demands that all decisions that can be postponed are left to the new Bundestag.
  The SPD, the Greens and the CDU/CSU have now argued that the proposed amendment to the Basic Law is an urgent decision that cannot be postponed because we are facing an emergency of exceptional proportions. For this reason, the amendment to the Basic Law must be passed during this parliamentary term. Later on, those responsible will probably speak of a “white lie”. In view of the fact that the CDU/CSU, SPD and the Greens no longer have a two-thirds majority in the newly elected Bundestag, this is in fact a lie and deception.

Corruption all along the line

The CDU/CSU had to buy the necessary two-thirds majority in the current parliament with unbelievable concessions to the SPD and Greens. Merz did this and is once again acting against the will of the voters. As if trust had not been eroded and abused enough, the final act of voter mockery was the nomination of the miserably failed former German Foreign Minister Baerbock as the future President of the UN General Assembly. The respected top diplomat Helga Schmid, who was actually the candidate for this position, has lost out.
  Following the vote in the Bundesrat on the proposed amendment to the Basic Law, including all special funds and the abolition of the debt brake in order to push ahead with armaments, it took just 24 hours for Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier to sign the law. One might have expected something different from his function as one of the supreme protectors of the Basic Law. But the separation of powers has been eroding in Germany for a very long time. This was also evident when the Federal Constitutional Court was called upon. Urgent applications to prevent the bill were not accepted and the amendment to the Basic Law was waved through. No wonder, since the highest court in Germany is a politically composed body in which party affiliation or party proximity often carry more weight than constitutional juridical skills. All of this destroys the trust of voters, and not just CDU/CSU voters. The Sunday trend, surveyed from 17 to 21 March 2025, already shows clear signs: The CDU/CSU and SPD lose one per cent, the AfD gains one per cent.
  The voters were counting on a change of policy, and that with the election of Merz as candidate for chancellor. They are being deceived across the board. Because in this case, everything will continue as before. The chosen policy change is denied. Germany is sinking into a swamp of debt, is blatantly losing economic power and is losing its function as the economic engine of the EU.

War drums in Germany
and throughout the EU

The highly stylised climate crisis was staged with sharp polarisation. During the pandemic, people’s fears were fuelled to the point of hysteria. In both cases, science abdicated or was elevated to a kind of new religion. Not facts, but the right attitude and the right belief were postulated and often enforced. The intensification of social antagonism during this period seems to have paved the way for the war hysteria practised in the Bundestag. The danger that, in their view, emanates from Putin’s Russia has been grotesquely exploited for the sake of all the demands made by the CDU, the SPD and the Green Party that are causing almost a trillion euros of debt.
  It all seems to have been well prepared. Baerbock blathered on about Germany being at war with Russia. Manfred Weber, CSU politician, party and parliamentary group leader of the EPP in the European Parliament, calls for a change in our thinking in Europe to “war readiness”. German aid organisations are being advised by the Bundeswehr to prepare for war. In Cologne, there are already plans to turn an underground car park into an intensive care unit in the event of a disaster or war. Rheinmetall, an armaments manufacturer in Germany, is considering taking over disused VW plants such as the one in Osnabrück for the production of tanks. The shares of Rheinmetall and other defence companies are skyrocketing. Rheinmetall CEO Armin Papperger speaks of a super economic cycle in the defence industry. Former German Foreign Minister and Green Party politician Joseph Fischer argues in favour of the reintroduction of compulsory military service for men and women. The European Union adopted an ambitious defence programme at its spring summit. By 2030, 800 billion euros are to be invested in strengthening Europe’s military. Germany must contribute 25 per cent of this sum. That is another 200 billion.

What is it all about?

Are all these calls and statements just a distraction from all the domestic political emergencies in Germany or the EU, of which we do indeed have an unmanageable number? Or is this about the continuation of old geostrategic plans that have been pursued time and again by Anglo-American elites?

What else can happen?

Good faith is the cornerstone of every society. No politically organised society can do without. The power-seeking force is a corrosive poison that is trying to spread its effects to all people through propagandistic war hysteria. It is to be hoped that this course is doomed to failure. The new Bundestag has just been constituted and the coalition agreement has not yet been finalised. The chancellor has not yet been elected and the cabinet has not yet been appointed. Only time until Easter will tell whether this will happen. Friedrich Merz’s statement at the readers’ conference of the “Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung” on 21 March 2025 shows that the outcome could be completely different: “If we don’t succeed [meaning the coalition agreement], my career will be over anyway at a time when I can deal with it”. And then what?

Germany in 2025

Holding up the Basic Law at demonstrations was penalised. Criticism of politicians was turned into a criminal offence as delegitimization of the state. This often led to house searches in the early hours of the morning. But a blatant breach of an election promise resulting in an unbelievable debt for German citizens for generations to come, with wilful disregard for the democratic legitimacy of the newly elected Bundestag, has so far remained without consequences for the lying politician. •