New central block puts AFD aside and should focus on response to Trump’s fares and the country’s finances.
It was late, but it arrived. After, and an announcement on the night of Tuesday that promised an agreement for the morning of Wednesday, finally arrived the alliance expected: the conservatives of CDU, winners of the elections, unite for social-left-left democrats (SPD) to form a form central block.
The newly published script “Responsibility for Germany” has 146 pages, and “is a very strong and clear signal for the citizens of our country. And it is also a clear sign for our partners in the European Union,” says the new Chancellor Friedrich Merz.
“Germany is again on the good way,” he says, quoted by.
The agreement arrived, but it cost: on Tuesday night, the parties were for 13 hours trying to negotiate an unsuccessful deal. This only arrived on Wednesday afternoon, and departs from governance the party of far-right AFD.
Merz should take office at the end of May, But it still has an obstacle to overcome: it has to have the approval of most of its colleagues from the New Union to the package of measures that it needs to approve until Easter.
It includes investment in defense and even a reform of the “debt brake”seen as an obstacle to public investment.
But there are themes that divide the two parties, conservative and left, as is the case with immigration. Merz has insisted that he will “effectively end irregular immigration,” but SPD co-leader Lars Klingbeil, who will now become vice-chancellor, is unless “Germany is an immigration country” and “basic asylum right remains inviolable”.
Still, the center-left leader wants to bet on unity and change: “The excavators have to start working and the fax devices have to disappear,” he said.
Now, the work of the coalition, points out The Guardian, should be guided by two fretnes: reverse the country’s economic crisis and respond to those that threaten the whole of Europe.
