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State Secretary Kukies, Supervisor Ross, Field Expert (photo montage): First wish means no chance
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When Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) and her deputy, Finance Minister Olaf Scholz (SPD), have to sit down over a glass of red wine and decide on personal details, then this means: The lower ranks of the government could not agree.
It happened again recently.
Merkel and Scholz met there to talk about the fate of Lars Feld, the chairman of the council of experts for assessing macroeconomic development, commonly known as the five economic methods.
The mandate of the Freiburg economist expires at the end of February.
The Union would like to extend it, the SPD would rather get rid of the man with the market economy convictions.
Scholz proposed two successor candidates to Merkel, both close to the SPD.
The Chancellor politely declined and gave her vice-president to understand that the CDU and CSU were sticking to Feld.
Scholz may once more go into himself.
Then they adjourned.
It is not the only person that the Union and the SPD have to decide in the final phase of the electoral term.
At the state development bank KfW, two jobs are available on the executive board, including top positions.
The Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (Bafin) needs a new president, and there are three jobs to be renewed on the board of the state-owned railway.
The perfect constellation for a great deal of post - in which the Chancellor and Union have the significantly worse cards.
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