Following a series of scandals surrounding her decisions following the flood in 2021, German Minister of Family and Youth Anne Spiegel reacted to public pressure and resigned from office. She will be succeeded by fellow Green party member and financial expert Lisa Paus.
A series of failures in the prevention of the flood catastrophe of July 2021 cost more than 100 lives in Germany alone. Newly-revealed chats that some high-ranking politicians were more concerned about not being blamed for those failures than about saving lives.
