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Spahn criticizes traffic light crisis communication as "irresponsible"

Former Minister of Health Jens Spahn (CDU) has criticized the federal government's crisis communication as "irresponsible".

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Spahn criticizes traffic light crisis communication as "irresponsible"

Former Minister of Health Jens Spahn (CDU) has criticized the federal government's crisis communication as "irresponsible". The traffic light coalition communicates too much and thus contributes to the insecurity of the citizens, said the Union faction vice of the weekly newspaper "Die Zeit".

"Imagine if Peer Steinbrück and Angela Merkel had said during the financial crisis: 'Money could be tight. But please don't go to your bank and please don't pick it up tomorrow morning.' That would have been terrible," Spahn said. At the beginning of the financial crisis in 2008, the SPD politician Steinbrück was Minister of Finance, while Angela Merkel (CDU) was Chancellor. The current federal government made up of SPD, Greens and FDP is fighting against the consequences of inflation and the energy crisis as a result of the Russian war of aggression in Ukraine.

Spahn, who led the Ministry of Health in the first 1.5 years of the corona pandemic, also looks back critically on his own time as a member of the government. Politicians would have focused too much on the health system, economy and gastronomy, as well as "on the elderly, the particularly vulnerable," Spahn is quoted as saying.

The needs of children and families played "too little a role" in the expert panels. “It is too seldom realized that a ten-year-old has now spent more than a fifth of his life in the pandemic. It was a real stress test for families.” In the coming week, Spahn will publish a book entitled “We will have to forgive each other a lot”.

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