Overview
- Maybrit Illner features an exclusive conversation with Ukraine’s president that centers the question of whether Germany’s leaders have pledged more than they can deliver.
- Zelensky calls Germany his key European partner and says Germany does more than any other country, raising expectations for Berlin’s military, financial, and political support.
- Markus Lanz opened the week with Sepp Müller, Anna Lehmann, Azadeh Zamirirad, and Moritz Brake on fuel relief, Iran’s turmoil, and risks to shipping in the Strait of Hormuz that could drive up prices.
- A follow‑up Lanz episode brought Claudia Kemfert and Michael Bröcker to explain energy price spikes and to unpack the government’s relief package for drivers and households.
- Maischberger’s panels pressed the coalition’s relief plans and foreign policy with Michael Kretschmer, Sigmar Gabriel, Reiner Haseloff, and Peter Rough, and ARD and ZDF made all episodes quickly available in their mediatheks to widen the debate.