Gerhard Schröder once put his office at risk with a vote of confidence in the Bundestag. 22 years later, French President Emmanuel Macron is also taking a high personal risk with his pension reform. stern author Nico Fried on the ultimate question of conscience.
Gerhard Schröder picked up the phone after he got through the vote of confidence in the Bundestag in 2001 on the anti-terrorist mission of the Bundeswehr with just two votes more than necessary. The chancellor, who had jeopardized his office for full solidarity with the United States after September 11, called Wolfgang Ischinger, the ambassador in Washington. It was important to the chancellor, Ischinger later recalled, that the White House knew the risk he had taken.
Source: Stern
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