“Dare to make more progress.
Alliance for Freedom, Justice and Sustainability.
Almost two months after the general elections marked by a historic debacle for the CDU, the conservative camp of the chancellor, the social democrat (SPD) Olaf Scholz is to be invested chancellor at the beginning of December by the deputies of the Bundestag, at the head of 'an unprecedented alliance with the Greens and the liberal FDP party.
Germany will then turn the page of the Merkel years, which had already been responsible for the management of current affairs for a month.
The Greens are already guaranteed access to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs with Annalena Baerbock, as well as a "super" Ministry of Climate and the Economy, which will return to Robert Habeck.
The Liberals of the FDP, very orthodox on the public accounts, will hold the finance portfolio, in the person of Christian Lindner.
The new coalition unveiled on Wednesday the strengths it intends to apply.
Bringing the exit from coal forward to 2030
The new coalition wants to accelerate the exit of coal and bring it forward to 2030 "ideally", instead of 2038, according to the agreement reached between the three parties.
"This requires the massive development of renewable energies" and involves "the construction of modern gas power stations in order to cover the growing needs for electricity and energy over the coming years at competitive prices", she notes.
Cannabis legalization
The sale of cannabis will be done in “authorized stores” and will be reserved for “adults”.
"This will make it possible to control the quality, to prevent the transmission of contaminated substances and to guarantee the protection of the youth", specifies the government contract presented Wednesday by the three parties of the coalition, specifying that "the social impact of the law ”would be evaluated after four years.
A billion in favor of caregivers and nursing assistants
They were “particularly in demand” by the Covid-19 pandemic, said Olaf Scholz.
Germany, overwhelmed by an imposing fourth wave of infections, must also "study" a possible "extension" of the vaccination obligation, already in force in the army and soon in health facilities, said the former mayor of Hamburg.
A "sovereign Europe"
Germany wants to place the defense of a “sovereign Europe” at the heart of its foreign policy, said the future chancellor.
A "sovereign Europe is the key and it is a duty for our foreign policy", estimates the Social Democrat.
Budgetary discipline in 2023
After a year 2022 still marked by the pandemic, "from 2023 we will limit debt to what the constitutional brake allows", according to the coalition contract negotiated for several weeks between SPD, FDP and the Greens, which however provides for “unprecedented” budgetary means to meet climate objectives.
