Traffic light hammer at press conference: "All corona measures in Germany end at the latest ..."

The traffic lights negotiate again on Wednesday.

Before that, she presented her first joint plan in Berlin - on the subject of Corona.

News ticker.

• On Wednesday (October 27th) the SPD *, Greens and FDP will continue the traffic light coalition talks.

• Before that, representatives presented their joint successor solution for the "epidemic situation"

  (see updates from October 27th, from 10:06 am).

  March 20, 2022 will be a special date

  (see update from October 27, 10:29 a.m.).

• Greens leader Baerbock * is preparing Germany for difficult moments

  (see update from October 27, 2:30 p.m.).

• This news ticker is continuously updated.

Update from October 27th, 2.30 p.m.:

The traffic light parties are negotiating - and the Greens chairwoman Annalena Baerbock has put Germany in the mood for difficult moments in the new legislative period.

The upcoming “reform years” would “not be very easy years,” she said on Wednesday at the federal congress of the union IG BCE in Hanover.

"You have to be that open now."

The starting position after the federal election was unusual, said Baerbock.

The well-known camp formation and traditional political partners no longer exist.

But in the new constellation there is also “a huge opportunity”, of which she is “deeply convinced”.

The SPD, the Greens and the FDP wanted to tackle a lot with the joint government they wanted. “We want to break out,” said Baerbock, and the traffic light alliance wanted to “dissolve the modernization backlog”.

It is important that all those involved build bridges and are able to acknowledge that someone else has a better idea than oneself. This applies not only to the traffic light negotiators, but also to society as a whole, warned Baerbock.

"Of course it takes courage to take such steps."

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Annalena Baerbock, head of the Greens, speaks at the 7th Ordinary Trade Union Congress of the Mining, Chemical and Energy Industrial Union (IG BCE).

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Wissing brings out the traffic light sticking point: "I don't think much of one party at the negotiating table making the other personnel requirements"

Update from October 27, 12.40 p.m.:

When working on a joint government, the SPD, Greens and FDP are facing an intensive negotiation phase, according to SPD Secretary General Lars Klingbeil. "All three parties are convinced that Germany needs a new start," he told the German press agency. "We are now carrying this unity from the explorations into the coalition negotiations." By November 10, 22 working groups are to work out building blocks that the main negotiators will then put together to form the coalition agreement, as Klingbeil confirmed. “With these two weeks we deliberately imposed a tight schedule. We don't want to lose any time. "

But there could be several sticking points, including: The FDP continues to reject a quota for women and men in government posts.

"It is common for each contract partner to make his own personnel decisions," said FDP General Secretary Volker Wissing to the newspapers of the

media group.

“Equality is also important to us, but I don't think much of one party making the other personnel requirements at the negotiating table,” said Wissing.

"That has never worked in a coalition."

Traffic light parties present Corona plan - view of the beginning of spring

Update from October 27, 11:04 a.m.:

According to plans by the possible future government partners SPD, Greens and FDP, the special legal situation due to the corona pandemic should end on November 25

. For a transition period until March 20, 2022, a new legal basis for Corona requirements is to be created instead, as the three parliamentary groups announced on Wednesday

. This means that the federal states should continue to be able to order "less intervention-intensive" measures - among other things, on masks or access rules only for vaccinated, convalescent and tested people. With the beginning of spring, all corona measures should then fall - provided that no new mutation or the like worsens the situation again.

PK of the traffic light parties on Corona: "2G and 3G are not included in our catalog"

Update from October 27,

10:38 a.m.: What about access restrictions for certain groups of people, such as those who have not been tested?

"2G and 3G are not included in our catalog", says Göring-Eckardt, because there is no national legal regulation.

“As liberals, we consider 2G to be wrong,” adds Buschmann.

However, the federal states had the decision on such rules themselves until spring 2022.

Update from October 27th, 10:29 am

: A new date is now a topic in the PK on the epidemic situation.

With reservation - new corona mutations, for example - Buschmann explains: "If none of this happens, all measures will end on March 20, 2022." A few minutes later, Wiese added that the "very drastic" measures would no longer be effective as of November 25 necessary.

Update from October 27, 10:23 a.m

.: Buschmann continues to go into the plans that arose in the traffic light talks.

You now have a key issues paper and the next step is a bill.

Invite all constructive forces in the Bundestag, your hand is also stretched out in the direction of the Union.

"Party tactical games" have to be avoided, he says when asked by a journalist.

Corona-PK with SPD, Greens and FDP: Measures should end on March 20, 2022

Update from October 27th, 10.16 am

: Buschmann (FDP) considers dealing with the epidemic situation of national scope "perhaps the most controversial topic" of the past few years.

The fact that this could be regulated together in politics is a “good sign for democracy”.

One is happy to be able to get out of it now, said Buschmann.

At the beginning of the pandemic, the FDP supported its introduction, but very quickly no longer considered it necessary. The Liberals were the first party to call for an end to it. The first hurdle was the question of the separation of powers, which at times led to a dominance of the executive, states Buschmann. In his opinion, this has weakened the citizens' trust in Parliament if it were not at the forefront of such profound issues.

Buschmann explains clearly: "From November 25, paragraph 28a I is legal history, it has been shut down." The aim is to make the new measures available where they are needed.

“However, there is an absolute end to all measures.

All measures will end with the beginning of spring on March 20, 2022 at the latest. Buschmann thinks "that this can contribute to pacifying the partially poisoned debate".

Epidemic situation in Germany: SPD, FDP and Greens rule out further lockdowns

Update from October 27th, 10:06 am

: "School closings, lockdowns and curfews will no longer exist with us, and are also disproportionate in the current situation": SPD parliamentary group vice Dirk Wiese, Dirk Wiese, Green parliamentary group leader Katrin-Göring Eckardt von The Greens and Marco Buschmann, deputy managing director of the FDP parliamentary group, inform about their corona plans at the press conference.

However, there will not be a “Freedom Day”

) on November 25, Wiese continues at the PK in Berlin.

On this day the "epidemic situation of national scope" is to come to an end.

The German health system was challenged in an unexpected way by the pandemic, emphasizes Wiese, justifying her finding around spring 2020.

For the ability to act, it was maintained for the past 18 months.

"That was discussed intensively," said Wiese.

Now the situation is different from that in August 2021. The proportion of people who have been vaccinated is growing: "In our view, there is no serious health risk, which is a prerequisite for the situation."

In the federal states, the current infection rate still requires further measures.

For the federal states, one therefore wants to develop a uniform national legal situation for measures in November.

Update from October 27th, 9.30 a.m.:

The traffic light parties SPD, Greens and FDP want to let the pandemic emergency expire at the end of November and replace it with a transitional regulation limited to March 20, 2022

.

The regulation is intended to enable the countries to continue to enforce certain corona protective measures such as mask requirements and 2G or 3G rules.

This emerges from a key issues paper on which various media report.

At 10 a.m., SPD parliamentary group vice-president Dirk Wiese, the chairman of the Green parliamentary group, Katrin Göring Eckardt, and the first parliamentary manager of the FDP parliamentary group, Marco Buschmann, want to hold a press conference.

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Olaf Scholz visits the FDP parliamentary group in the Bundestag - negotiations on the traffic light coalition will start again on Wednesday.

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Traffic light parties present plan for corona measures - "Epidemic situation" is about to expire

Update from October 27th, 7:15 am

: The "epidemic situation" was first determined by the Bundestag in March 2020.

It will automatically expire at the end of November if Parliament does not renew it.

How will the corona measures continue?

To this end, the SPD, Greens and FDP want to submit joint proposals this Wednesday

report

.

The

now reports that it already has the draft.

It says, "the aggressive catalog of measures (...) will no longer apply after the epidemic situation in Germany has ended." That means no further lockdowns, no curfews and no contact restrictions, the newspaper writes.

"Less intervention-intensive measures" until March 20, 2022 are still under discussion, according to the report.

These included, for example, compulsory masks, hygiene concepts and distance requirements in public spaces.

Video: Traffic light parties start detailed negotiations

Traffic light: FDP angry about SPD and Greens criticism of no to tax increases

Update from October 27, 6.57 a.m

.: There are irritations between the potential traffic light government

.

FDP General Secretary Volker Wissing was

angry

in the

newspapers on Wednesday about statements by SPD Chancellor candidate Olaf Scholz and Greens leader Robert Habeck that the Liberals were preventing the relief of small and medium income groups with their resistance to tax increases.

“First of all, I am surprised that the tax increases that the SPD and the Greens have called for in the election campaign should constantly be used for something else. First for climate protection, now for relief, ”said Wissing. "But it does not help us if every negotiating partner talks about what he would do if he could rule alone." The FDP general secretary warned the SPD and the Greens against "falling back into election campaign mode".

Scholz and Habeck had said on Sunday in the ARD program "Anne Will" that without the tax increases prevented by the FDP, there would be no scope for the relief of small and medium incomes.

Wissing now said that he still believes that relief for these income groups is possible: “In any case, it would be more than appropriate.

That is why we keep an eye on them. ”The parties want to agree on a joint coalition agreement by the end of November

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Traffic light sums up the first plan: Declaration on Wednesday - key points already leaked

First report from October 26th

: Berlin - The three traffic light parties * start their coalition negotiations on Wednesday - but they only want to comment

start of the talks.

And this public appointment is not about the government plan for the next four years.

But about a measure that has to be before the traffic lights start.

It's about the first acid test for the alliance: SPD, Greens * and FDP want to present their plan for the time after the "epidemic situation".

Traffic light coalition negotiations: Scholz, Lindner and Co. are fighting with the first major corona task

Jens Spahn - officially only managing minister of health since Tuesday - had recently rolled a first stumbling block in the way of the traffic light *: He brought an end to the epidemic situation, the basis of almost all corona measures, on the way.

But he no longer wanted to build the next solution himself.

In doing so, on the one hand, he followed the will of the SPD, Greens and FDP, who urged the current government to exercise restraint.

On the other hand, he also put the possible traffic light partners under direct pressure.

Especially since the prime ministers immediately returned the buck to finding a solution to Berlin.

Traffic light wants to replace “epidemic situation”: First basic features of the regulation already leaked

The thrust of the traffic light has already leaked "from party circles": According to a report by the

, the "epidemic situation of national scope" should not be extended when it expires on November 25th. A transitional regulation should enable the federal states to enforce certain corona protective measures such as wearing a mask *, distance requirements and the 3G and 2G rules even after the emergency pandemic has expired.

This should be achieved by changing paragraph 28a of the Infection Protection Act, it said.

So far, there is an extensive catalog of possible protective rules up to exit and contact restrictions, all of which are linked to the determination of the pandemic emergency.

The

reported that a corresponding bill should then be drawn up and passed by the new Bundestag in November

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The SPD, the Greens and the FDP want to present their “key points” on Wednesday at 10 a.m.

So it doesn't look as if the possible coalition will break up on this first test.

Traffic light: first results by early November?

Greens boss Habeck already explains personnel consequences

Then things get serious in the coalition negotiations.

The exploratory paper * provides the framework for the talks - however, there is still some need for clarification.

A total of 22 working groups are now to work on it - at different places and at different times.

Announcements are not planned for the time being.

However, the FDP had promised the first results for the beginning of November.

The aim of the three parties is to agree on a joint coalition agreement by the end of November.

At the beginning of December, SPD chancellor candidate Olaf Scholz * could then be elected as the new head of government.

Before that, however, the three parties would have to approve the negotiated government program in grassroots surveys or at party conferences.

Greens boss Robert Habeck has already promised the first personal consequences of a possible traffic light formation: In accordance with the Greens own "party culture", he wants to give up the party chairmanship if he takes on a ministerial office *.

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