Germany’s vice chancellor used strong language in an address to New York’s Columbia University on Friday when he called on the world’s politicians to confront today’s problems and not pass them on to the next generation. “Solve the fucking problems we are having now and don’t distribute them to others in the next generation,” Robert Habeck told the students at one of the oldest and most prestigious universities in the United States. “Politics is basically not to repeat what you thought was right 30 years ago, but to cope with the reality as it is, as you find it,” he added. Apart from serving …