Kohl's quote is reminiscent of the CDU's pragmatic power politics

Helmut Kohl, the great pragmatist of power, has a sentence handed down that is currently being forgotten in the CDU: “What matters is what comes out at the back.”

Kohl's chancellorship lasted 16 years, while his hereditary administrator Friedrich Merz only ruled as chancellor after just 16 months due to a lack of alternatives. And in the Union parliamentary group they have set a goal that doesn't really fit with the old self-image as a pragmatic power machine: What's crucial is that it doesn't look like the SPD has ripped us off again.