Robert Habeck: “China has turned free trade into a trap”

Dusseldorf. Robert Habeck is now a private person and travels a lot. He travels from city to city by train to present his book “Artic Meltdown”. He comes to the interview in the Handelsblatt editorial office by S-Bahn.

Habeck doesn't just want to talk about the Arctic. He is also concerned with Europe's role in an increasingly threatening world. Habeck answers questions for two hours. Not the ones he's getting everywhere; whether he will return to politics or what he thinks of Friedrich Merz. But how the world is developing and how Europe and Germany have to react to it. “The longer we wait, the worse it will get,” says Habeck.