Olaf Scholz – cometh the hour with the wrong man

Olaf Scholz, German Chancellor, is plummeting in approval ratings as he wrestles with rising energy bills, the threat of recession and a parliamentary inquiry into a €47 million tax scandal from his days as Hamburg Mayor. Under questioning he said 22 times that he could not recall the precise details of the bank scandal. His foreign policy since the Ukraine invasion has been variously criticised at home as too adventurous or too timid. He was never going to have an easy time with tr Ne