by Thorsten Koch
GermanPolicy.com

The Greens chairman Robert Habeck said that despote holding talks with the FDP and SPD after the Federal Election, “that doesn’t mean we won’t talk to the Union” parties. Greens chairman Annalena Baerbock sees commonalities between the FDP and the Greens “especially in the area of ​​civil rights, in the area of ​​a modern society and immigration society”. Trust is crucial for good cooperation, Baerbock emphasized. “In the area of ​​digitization, the modernization of our administration, there have already been joint initiatives between the Liberals and the Greens in the German Bundestag in recent years.” It is important not to think that climate protection is on the one hand and economic policy on the other.

Baden-Württemberg’s Prime Minister Winfried Kretschmann (Greens) demanded significant commitment from the SPD candidate for climate protection. He also called for a faster exit from coal.

On Monday, Hofreiter had said in his view, a coalition with the SPD and FDP was more likely than a Jamaica coalition with the CDU-CSU and the FDP. There has been a lot of reform backlog in the last 16 years, for example in the area of ​​digitization, he pointed out. The Greens did not want “a government with the lowest common denominator.”