Ard Arena - Chancellor Merz Meets Midwives "Midwifery Assistance Contract Not Heard"

The night belongs to the delivery room, but last night it belonged to the political stage: Chancellor Merz faced citizens' questions in the ARD "Arena". What followed was not only a journalistic highlight, but an embarrassing display of federal political failure.

We're talking about the key moment when three brave midwives confronted the Chancellor directly with reality in the ARD Arena – and he reacted with a shrug of ignorance.

📢 The Shock Moment: "I knew nothing about this problem."

The midwives addressed what has been keeping thousands of colleagues and countless families awake for months and has even been discussed on shows from Joko and Klaas to Volle Kanne: the catastrophic effects of the new Midwife Assistance Agreement, which came into force on November 1, 2025.

The Federal Chancellor's reaction, that he had not been informed about the dramatic consequences of this agreement on freelance midwifery, is unacceptable. It is a sad sign of how little weight the system-relevant work of midwives carries in political corridors.