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Germany’s new chancellor, Friedrich Merz
Trump tariffs accelerated a lawsuit between CDU and SPD but, after a 13 -hour “marathon”, taxes wage final document.
These are suspense days in Germany’s politics.
Last night, it was reported that the conservative and the social democrats They came to agreement to form a coalition government in Germanysix weeks after the elections held on February 23, they advanced German media.
According to news from the television station and the ‘online’ edition of Focus magazine, citing sources close to the parts, the winning block in the elections, composed by the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and by the Christian social union (CSU), and the German Social Democratic Party (SPD), They agreed with a text to guide the actions of the next executive.
The details of the agreement, achieved by CDU President Friedrich Merz, Bavaria’s chief executive and CSU leader Markus Söder and SPD co-president Saskia Esken would be presented at a press conference on Wednesday morning, according to Focus.
But after all …
However, according to it, early in the morning of Wednesday, After all there is no final agreement yet.
There was a 13-hour “marathon” of meetings, deliberations, interruptions and individual consultations, CDU/CSU and SPD leaders ended coalition negotiations shortly before midnight without a final agreement.
The goal now is to reach an agreement until Wednesday afternoon. Friedrich Merz will be first with the closest leading circle to the CDU.
The largest point of discord continues to be the taxes: The SPD wants a higher tax for those who earn a lot, CDU/CSU rejects this idea and wants to completely abolish the solidarity tax. There are also disagreements in relation to Pensions.
Negotiating parties are being pressed by the urgency triggered by the situation in the international markets after the US President, Donald Trump, have announced the imposition of tariffs International, which for the European Union (EU) countries reach 20%.
NTV described a negotiation climate in which conservatives were eager to reach a result as soon as possible on Tuesday, while social democrats would like to dialogue another day (something that will really happen).
The text can be finalized on the same day as the results of a month and a half of negotiations, of which the willingness of conservatives arose to take action such as the tax reduction and bureaucracy to stimulate the economyaccording to NTV.
Germany, the largest EU economy and the third largest in the world, has been in recession for two years, with Gross Domestic Product (GDP) to contract 0.3% in 2023 and 0.2% in 2024.
Merz and his conservative block were under pressure from the polls during the one that was considered an important week for negotiations with the SPD, as CDU/CSU appeared in recent polls tied in voting intentions with the Alternative Far-right party for Germany (AFD).
The conservative block won the last German elections with 28.6%of the votes, ahead of AFD (20.8%), SPD (16.4%), green (11.6%) and left (8.8%).
