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Traffic light: coalition negotiations could start this week

2021-10-19T05:46:48.784Z


The traffic light parties are preparing for the coalition talks, but much is still unclear and not financed. Green politician Claudia Roth therefore expects "tough negotiations".


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Possible coalition partners Annalena Baerbock, Olaf Scholz, Christian Lindner (on October 15)

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The new federal government should be in place before Christmas.

That is the declared goal of the SPD, Greens and FDP, who want to form a traffic light coalition.

But there is still a long way to go.

The Green politician Claudia Roth expects hard content-related disputes. "Of course, the next few weeks in the struggle for a future-oriented policy will be intense, exhausting and difficult," said Roth, who belongs to the negotiating team of her party, the "Augsburger Allgemeine". "First of all, we are now negotiating the content, the division of responsibilities will follow at the end."

The Greens want their members to decide on the coalition agreement in a strike vote. On Friday, the negotiators of a possible future traffic light coalition presented their exploratory results. The small party congress of the Greens "acknowledged and approved" this. It lists topics on which the three parties were able to achieve a "preliminary determination". As the last of the three parties, the FDP approved the exploratory results on Monday and voted to start coalition negotiations.

After the approval of their party committees, the SPD, Greens and FDP are now preparing to begin coalition negotiations.

The talks could start this week.

First of all, the General Secretaries want to join forces again to structure the talks.

Which working groups are formed can be a sign for possible future ministries.

In the coming weeks, however, it should also be about the layout and staffing of the ministries.

A dispute between the Greens and the FDP is looming over the Ministry of Finance in particular.

FDP leader Christian Lindner has already signaled his interest, Greens co-leader Robert Habeck reacted angrily.

On the other hand, some content-related issues have already been cleared away.

There should be no tax increases and the debt brake should be adhered to.

The statutory minimum wage is to rise to 12 euros per hour.

In the green core issue of climate protection, among other things, an accelerated expansion of renewable energies and an exit from coal, ideally by 2030, are planned.


SPD leader Norbert Walter-Borjans admitted that the projects and plans of the possible traffic light coalition have not yet been fully financed.

"The finances have to be deposited, of course," he told the newspapers of the Funke media group.

In the case of investments in the future, partial financing with loans is justified, "the debt brake definitely contains leeway for this".

In addition, there would be the possibilities of state institutions such as development banks.

Source: spiegel

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