Scholz' coalition collapses. What next?

Scholz’ ‘traffic light’ coalition is over Photo by Hermes Rivera on Unsplash

Dear Reader,

Two major pieces of news in one day. 

First, the outcome of the US elections that Germany's leadership had been praying wouldn't come true: a landslide victory for Donald Trump and his Republican party. 

Then, in the evening, Olaf Scholz fired his finance minister, a m…