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Robert Habeck, co-head of the Greens, in Berlin
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The traffic light coalition should be in place by the beginning of December - and the SPD and FDP are also optimistic that it will work.
The Greens, on the other hand, are becoming increasingly skeptical.
Green leader Robert Habeck has now warned that the coalition negotiations could fail.
There was agreement that the next government had to be a climate government, he said on rbb-Inforadio.
The question now arises as to what the SPD and FDP have achieved on the subject of climate protection in the previous negotiations.
Habeck referred to the 1.5-degree path laid down in the exploratory paper of the three traffic light parties and said that measures had to be developed for this and wind turbines built.
"The climate has not yet been saved on paper, but if we don't get there, then we will have failed in the coalition negotiations."
It is not certain that an agreement will be reached on schedule - Habeck's co-party chairwoman Annalena Baerbock had also expressed similar concerns.
Formally, the sub-working groups had ended their work, said Habeck.
On Monday and Tuesday, the main negotiating group should meet with the party general secretaries.
"Then we'll try to break the knot."
Climate protection is one of the most difficult issues in the negotiations between the SPD, the Greens and the FDP.
The 22 individual negotiating groups finished their work on Wednesday.
The results have been evaluated since then.
From Monday it should then continue in a large group.
SPD General Secretary Lars Klingbeil does not see the negotiations as being behind schedule.
Klingbeil told Bayerischer Rundfunk that he was totally optimistic that the coalition agreement would be approved on December 4th and that Olaf Scholz would be elected chancellor the week after Nikolaus.
Previously, FDP leader Christian Lindner had also said that he was sticking to the agreed schedule.
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