Three points of contention are explosive for the traffic light coalition in Berlin. Greens and the FDP are urging each other to do more on reducing bureaucracy.

The SPD is worried that there will be social cuts after the end of the Bundeswehr's special funds. The FDP will try to distinguish itself from the SPD and the Greens as the party that is prepared to make painful cuts in the social sector, says Albrecht von Lucke, editor of the “Blätter für deutsche und internationalpolitik’s” newspaper.