Overview
- Tuesday’s panel featured SPD’s Ralf Stegner, CDU’s Mathias Middelberg, journalist Karina Mößbauer, political scientist Herfried Münkler, and Iran expert Ali Fathollah‑Nejad discussing inheritance tax, Iran’s protests, and shifts in the global order.
- Middelberg criticized the SPD’s inheritance‑tax proposal, arguing it would massively increase costs for family‑run small and medium‑sized enterprises.
- Münkler asserted that the unipolar moment of the United States is over, framing debates on how power is redistributing globally.
- Fathollah‑Nejad assessed that public anger and protests in Iran could hold the potential to topple the clerical regime.
- Wednesday’s show examined U.S. security policy and European responses with John Bolton, Manfred Weber, Beatrix von Storch, and Ulrike Herrmann, spanning Trump’s calculus on arenas like Greenland, Venezuela and Iran, the EU’s stance, AfD defense positions, and Herrmann’s view that the AfD is a Höcke party.