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Traffic light coalition agreement: Corona, pension, children - the first content seeps through

2021-11-24T13:41:55.774Z


The SPD, Greens and FDP want to present their coalition agreement on Wednesday. The Greens will announce their ministers on Thursday.


The SPD, Greens and FDP want to present their coalition agreement on Wednesday.

The Greens will announce their ministers on Thursday.

  • The SPD *, Greens * and FDP * want to present their coalition agreement for a joint federal government on Wednesday (November 24th, 2021) at 3 p.m.

  • The previous Finance Minister Olaf Scholz * (SPD) is to be elected Chancellor in the Bundestag * during St. Nicholas Week.

  • What is in the coalition agreement?

    Who gets which ministry?

    All current developments in the news ticker.

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According to information from ARD, the coalition agreement provides for a total of seventeen departments, one more than in the current government. According to ARD, the SPD will take over seven ministries: Head of the Chancellery: in, Ministries for the Interior, Defense, Health, Labor and Social Affairs, Economic Cooperation: There will also be a newly created department on the subject of building and housing. In addition, there should be a Minister of State in the Chancellery for Migration, Refugees and Integration and a Minister of State for the new federal states.

According to the information from ARD, the Greens should provide the Vice Chancellor and assume responsibility for the Federal Foreign Office, economy and climate protection, environment and consumer protection, family, as well as food and agriculture.

You also provide the personnel for the State Ministry for Culture and Media and also receive the right to propose a possible EU commissioner: in.

The FDP is to have four ministries: Education and Research, Finance, Justice, and Transport and Digital.

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From left: Volker Wissing (FDP), Robert Habeck (Greens), Annalena Baerbock (Greens) and Christian Lindner (FDP).

© Christoph Soeder / dpa

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Some information on the political agenda of the future traffic light coalition is available to the Spiegel magazine, which is also to be presented at the press conference today at 3 p.m.

They are:

  • Dealing with the corona pandemic * is a central task of the new coalition, it is said.

    The new government therefore wants to set up a corona crisis team.

  • The level of the pension * should be maintained, pension cuts and raising the retirement age are excluded.

    In addition, the SPD, FDP and Greens want to get into a supplementary share pension.

    This partial funding should be managed professionally and seriously as a permanent fund by an independent public body.

  • The minimum wage is to rise to 12 euros, that was one of Olaf Scholz's central election campaign promises.

  • In the field of education, a

    Apprenticeship guarantee introduced.

    In addition, there should be a student loan reform.

  • The voting age is to be reduced to 16 years.

  • Financial support services for children should be bundled in a basic child benefit.

    Furthermore, children's rights are to be anchored in the Basic Law.

  • The traffic light plans to build 400,000 apartments a year, a quarter of which are publicly funded.

    The rent brake is to be extended.

  • In future, 3.5 percent of the gross domestic product should be available for research and development.

Traffic light parties agree on coalition agreement - some items have already been allocated

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In the meantime, the first ministries seem to have been awarded.

In addition to the Chancellery, the Ministry of the Interior, the Ministry of Defense, the Ministry of Building and Housing, the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs, the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development and the Ministry of Health go to the SPD.

So can Karl Lauterbach still hope for the post of Minister of Health?

The FDP receives the Ministry of Finance (in the person of Christian Lindner), the Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of Transport and the Ministry of Education and Research.

The Greens take over the Foreign Office (Annalena Baerbock will replace Heiko Maas), the Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Protection, the Family Ministry, the Ministry of Agriculture and the Ministry of the Environment.

Traffic light: who receives which ministry?

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Even if the official department distribution will not be announced until next week, there is already some speculation about the ministries *.

So Christian Lindner * (FDP) should actually get the finance ministry he prefers.

For the Greens and their possible future Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck *, a newly created super ministry from economy and climate is possible.

Chancellor candidate Annalena Baerbock * could take over the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

The current Justice Minister Christine Lambrecht (SPD) is in discussion for the Ministry of the Interior.

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Robert Habeck (lr), federal chairman of Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen, Annalena Baerbock, federal chairman of Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen, Olaf Scholz, SPD candidate for chancellor and federal minister of finance, and Christian Lindner, parliamentary group leader and party leader of the FDP.

© Kay Nietfeld / dpa

There could be a disappointment for Karl Lauterbach *: He had repeatedly said that he would be available for the Ministry of Health.

Here, however, according to media reports, the FDP has prevailed and will take over the department in the person of Michael Theurer.

Traffic light coalition: Cabinet list comes in early December

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According to a media report, the cabinet list of the planned traffic light government should not be available until the beginning of December. As the Rheinische Post reported on Wednesday, citing information from party circles, the SPD and FDP want to announce their respective government members for the party congresses on December 4th and 5th respectively. There the two parties want to evaluate the coalition agreement with the Greens, which will be presented this Wednesday afternoon.

The Greens have a different schedule.

Since they let the base decide on the coalition agreement and also on the agreed division of responsibilities in a member survey and need more time for this, they also want to announce the names of their ministers this Thursday (November 25, 2021).

Otherwise it is only clear that Olaf Scholz (SPD) will become Federal Chancellor.

Traffic light parties agree: coalition agreement is presented

Berlin - A good eight weeks after the federal election *, the time has come: the SPD, Greens and FDP want to present their coalition agreement for a joint federal government on Wednesday (November 24th, 2021).

The three parties unanimously invited to a press conference at 3 p.m. in Berlin.

The main round of negotiations * of the three parties will meet this Wednesday for their final meeting.

Afterwards, the chairmen of the three parties and candidate for Chancellor Olaf Scholz will present the coalition agreement negotiated over the past few weeks.

Traffic light: coalition agreement must be approved by party members

The coalition negotiations began on October 21, after the three traffic light parties had previously laid the foundation stone for them in explorations.

They were led in a main negotiating group made up of six high-ranking representatives from each party, as well as in 22 working groups.

In these, the politicians of the parties negotiated the details of the coalition agreement.

A coalition agreement must then be approved by party congresses for the SPD and FDP, and for the Greens in a member survey.

The previous Finance Minister Olaf Scholz (SPD) is to be elected Chancellor in the Bundestag during St. Nicholas Week.

After 16 years, the era of Chancellor Angela Merkel * (CDU *), who did not run again in the federal elections on September 26th, ends.

Traffic light coalition does not want tax increases

In an exploratory paper, the SPD, the Greens and the FDP * had already made some “preliminary determinations” and cleared away some issues.

In it they wrote “a comprehensive renewal of our country” and “a new departure” for Germany in order to cope with major challenges such as climate change, digitization, securing prosperity and social cohesion.

Probably in consideration of the election promises of the FDP, it was agreed that no new taxes on assets would be introduced and taxes such as income, corporate or value added tax would not be increased.

In the first year of a traffic light coalition, the statutory minimum wage is to be increased to twelve euros per hour.

This was a central election promise of the SPD.

The voting age for Bundestag and European elections is to be reduced from 18 to 16 years.

Climate protection goals set in the coalition agreement

In order to comply with the climate protection goals, the paper also stipulated that the phase-out from coal-fired power generation should be accelerated and, if possible, brought forward to 2030.

So far, the coal phase-out is planned by 2038 at the latest.

A general speed limit on motorways, as demanded by the Greens, should not come.

On the subject of migration, it was agreed to speed up asylum procedures, family reunification procedures and returns.

Legal access routes to Germany are to be created.

According to the usual rhythm of Bundestag weeks, the plenum would meet for the first time on December 8th during St.

Should the chancellor election then take place, 73 days would have passed since the federal election.

For comparison: After the 2017 election, the formation of a government took 171 days - longer than ever before.

Four years earlier it had been 86 days.

In contrast, the first and the second red-green federal government of Chancellor Gerhard Schröder (SPD) came about in only 30 days in 1998 and 2002.

(sot with dpa)

* fr.de is an offer from IPPEN.MEDIA.

List of rubric lists: © Christoph Soeder / dpa

Source: merkur

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