(GermanPolicy.com) – After one last meeting of leaders of the SPD, the Greens and the FDP, 22 working groups with 96 participants each will begin coalition negotiations next week. According to media reports, topics such as acceleration of planning and the right to vote will be topics, as well as the environment, science, and digitization. Initially, it was said that negotiations could start this week.

SPD chairman Walter-Borjans admitted that certain plans could be financed in part by loans and bank funding from the federal and state governments. There is scope for this in the debt brake mechanism, he said.