Federal Chancellor: First interview on MagentaTV+
The Federal Chancellor talks to Johannes B. Kerner in the evening. If you don't want to watch or pay for it, you can avoid it.
Olaf Scholz (l.) and Johannes B. Kerner.
(Image: Deutsche Telekom)
MagentaTV+ has the German Chancellor as a guest for the first time in one of its programs. In the talk show series "Bestbesetzung", Olaf Scholz answers questions from presenter Johannes B. Kerner. The 60-minute recording will be shown on MagentaTV+ this Wednesday at 6 pm. If you want to watch it, you need a MagentaTV subscription, which costs 10 euros per month.
Alternatively, you can watch the one-and-a-half hour recording of the Chancellor's summer press conference from this Wednesday lunchtime, which the public television station Phoenix has put on YouTube. In it, Scholz commented on the ban on the Compact magazine, among other things. Freedom of the press includes the right to say "a lot of nonsense", but it also has its limits under criminal law. When dealing with the new media on the internet, Scholz advised "inner robustness": "Let them talk."
Scholz went on to say that it was a priority for his government for Germany to be at the forefront of technology. For example, it is aiming to invest in making the German semiconductor industry the largest in Europe. According to Scholz, he has intervened several times with the EU Commission to ensure that vehicles powered by e-fuels are still allowed to drive despite the ban on combustion engines. It took a lot of effort to "box it in". He is pleased to note that everyone now wants this. From 2035, there will be several technical alternatives in addition to electric cars, such as hydrogen-powered vehicles. Scholz promises German electric car manufacturers a "boost".
Ukraine, migration, the USA and more
On MagentaTV, Scholz comments on political and social topics such as the challenges in the labor market, the war in Ukraine, migration and developments in the US presidential election campaign, according to Deutsche Telekom, which offers MagentaTV+. For example, Scholz said that efforts to find a peaceful solution to the conflict in Ukraine were not an alternative to military support for Ukraine, but a complement. He expects Kamala Harris to stand in for Joe Biden as the Democratic presidential candidate. He considers her to be an experienced and competent politician.
This is not the first time Scholz has been a guest on MagentaTV+. In 2021, he was Kerner's discussion partner in his role as SPD candidate for chancellor, as was his rival from the Greens, Annalena Baerbock, and the then CDU and CSU candidate for chancellor, Armin Laschet. The Federal Chancellery has not yet responded to questions from heise online about the Chancellor giving an interview on a pay-TV channel.
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