Friedrich Merz meets Kai Diekmann

Friedrich Merz, Vice-President of the Economic Council of the CDU e.V., talks in LSB Insights, the virtual talk series of London Speaker Bureau, not only about his own corona disease, but also about how he experienced the quarantine.

The Federal Government's economic stimulus programme is also topic of the conversation with host Kai Diekmann, as is Germany's digital infrastructure. Is the "fiscal bazooka" really the remedy of the hour? Can politics really cover all the life risks resulting from the pandemic, or do we have to accept that there will be victims?

You can look forward to a very personal talk between Kai Diekmann und Friedrich Merz.

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