Because it isn’t anything new.

Because it’s a ‘frog in the hot water’ kind of crisis vs a ‘frog in the fire’ kind of crisis.

Because in the eyes of the constitutional court it’s not an unforeseeable, acute crisis, but something that is known since decades :(

That’s not the point here.

This decision of the court didn’t try to make any political point or find a solution, it was only asked to decide, whether moving funds (or more precisely: grants to take on loans) was legal or not.

Now politics kicks in and they’re supposed to find a solution that’s actually legal for a change.

German politics is an absolute shit show right now.

this has been the hottest summer ever

I hope you enjoyed it, it might have been the coolest summer for the rest of our lives!

Probably because one is an immediate, temporary crisis and the other is a general, long-lasting, global-scale crisis, where increasing the federal budget doesn’t seem to have a short-term effect to mitigate the negative effects

Ukraine war and inflation could have served as reasons to break the debt limit, but the FDP was strictly against that. They think they can gain voters by strictly adhering to the debt limit.