https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/09/27...el-era-scholz/
As Foreign Policy columnist Adam Tooze wrote earlier this month, whether the finance ministry is helmed by a spender or a penny-pincher will have huge implications for Europe’s economic recovery. “If a German finance minister throws his weight behind the EU’s smaller conservative member states, which are calling for a return to fiscal orthodoxy, it will be a disaster for Europe,” Tooze wrote.
The FDP’s Christian Lindner is precisely the kind of finance minister Tooze fears. Writing in Foreign Policy last week, Sudha David-Wilp sized up Lindner’s options now that he has Germany’s two major parties at his door.