The chancellor is standing in that government benches opposite the semi-circular seating of the members of parliament to be questioned while the parliament's leadership looks on from the podium.

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   Wolfgang Lucht (w_lucht@mstdn.social)'s status on Thursday, 10-Jul-2025 22:35:12 JST Wolfgang Lucht

   It's not surprising, but sobering and alarming:

   After members of the new German gvmt cast doubts on 🇩🇪's climate target, claiming it is too strict, chancellor Merz was asked today in the Parliament's Questioning Time (by the Greens) whether he can unequivocally declare that 🇩🇪 stands by it constitutionally mandated target of climate neutrality in 2045. Merz absolutely could not get himself to say that. Instead he gave answers that I cannot find satisfactory:

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