A coalition committee can have the effect of a catharsis: for a few hours, politicians see the people in other politicians.
Everything is always fine afterwards. It was the same this time after the coalition committee of the traffic light parties. Before that, people insult each other via the media, which report it just as gratefully as their strict commentators continue to comment on the bad climate in the coalition with civic concerns on one newspaper page. But then the so-called leaders of the SPD, Greens and FDP talk to each other, bend for hours and in stages over problems that they have been putting off for weeks, and present results, even if not all questions have been answered.
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I have been working in the news industry for over 6 years, first as a reporter and now as an editor. I have covered politics extensively, and my work has appeared in major newspapers and online news outlets around the world. In addition to my writing, I also contribute regularly to 24 Hours World.