What is Olaf Scholz saying there? It is 1:03 p.m. on Wednesday. The Chancellor is in the Bundestag, and whoever is listening is now expecting explanations about the main battle tanks for Ukraine. Scholz begins, praising himself and his government, and remarkable sentences follow: “I would like to say,” said the Chancellor, “that the pace that we have shown should be the pace that characterizes the whole country.” With resolute progress one can “encourage others to follow this path”.

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