FDP leader Lindner calls for a change in the welfare state: a surprise for the Chancellor. Is Fritze Merz still right with his prediction of new elections in September? A lot has come together recently.

The traffic light is at the latest with Linder's pre-Easter greeting before the fateful weeks. The FDP leader has been increasing the pressure on the coalition partners for weeks, and it is difficult not to see a copy of the approach of the chief liberals Genscher and Lambsdorff, who used exactly the same script to overthrow the social-liberal coalition.