Former Green Party co-chair Ricarda Lang is starting a column on FOCUS online. From December 2024, she will be presenting her views on current political issues and debates for the news portal. “Long-term thinking” is the name of the monthly column, in which she aims to take a constructive look ahead.
Ricarda Lang is banking on a competition of ideas: “I want opposition, because no new idea is born from encouragement alone,” says the 30-year-old.
I deliberately do this at FOCUS online, in a place that I wouldn't exactly describe as a green oasis of well-being. But I want to exchange ideas with as many citizens as possible, across party lines and political viewpoints,“
FOCUS online supplements the analyses of its journalists with a large circle of strong voices. The portal's “Experts Circle” now comprises 120 personalities from politics, business and science who regularly publish for the portal (focus.de/experts).
After the traumatic experience of the traffic light coalition and the upcoming short, tough election campaign, the parties will have to overcome major differences in order to form a government,“
“This makes an ideology-free exchange of positions among democrats all the more important. We are giving this a wide-reaching stage on FOCUS online.”
Lang resigned at the end of September together with her co-chair Omid Nouripour. She is running for a direct mandate in her constituency of Backnang - Schwäbisch Gmünd in Baden-Württemberg in the upcoming 2025 Bundestag elections.
Ricarda Lang's opening column can be found here on FOCUS online from today.
