“How consequential it is when progress lacks advocates in politics is shown by the balance sheet of the era of grand coalitions between 2005 and 2021 (even though there was an interruption). Whether it’s crumbling infrastructure, delayed reforms in the social systems, or the procrastinated digitization of the country – the location is still struggling with the follow-up costs of the progress denial of the various social-Merkelian federal governments. But Germany cannot afford this. If progress no longer has advocates, prosperity has no future.”
– Sven Prange in “Progress without Advocates or: The Dangerous Lust for the GroKo – Germany has barely recovered from the Grand Coalition, yet the model is experiencing a comeback. Preservation instead of progress, that is the zeitgeist – to the detriment of the country, which needs progress to secure its prosperity.”, Handelsblatt from 17., 18,. 19. November 2023, No. 223
