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Scholz and Greens want one million social housing within ten years
(GermanPolicy.com) – SPD candidate for Chancellor Olaf Scholz wants to build 400,000 new apartments every year as head of a new government. This includes 100,000 social housing, he said in Munich. In the next five years, rents should hardly rise, promised Scholz. The Greens want…
Lindner (FDP) would prefer a Jamaica coalition
(GermanPolicy.com) – According to media reports, Christian Lindner, chairman of the FDP, prefers a coalition with the CDU-CSU and the Greens due to the political content after the Federal Election. The SPD could not automatically insist on a claim to leadership. “We want to join…
SPD vice-chair Kühnert would like a member survey on the future coalition
(GermanPolicy.com) – SPD vice chairman Kevin Kühnert sees a member survey as a prerequisite for the Social Democrats to join a new Federal Government. However, Kühnert does not want to involve the base of his party in exploratory talks or coalition negotiations. As early as…
Merkel: CDU-CSU stands for “measure and middle”
(GermanPolicy.com) – In the city of Aachen, Chancellor Angela Merkel again spoke out in favor of Chancellor candidate Armin Laschet: “It does matter who rules Germany.” Laschet is a successful Prime Minister in North Rhine-Westphalia, Merkel explained, adding that he also achieved much for the…
Laschet for climate protection without excess bureaucracy
(GermanPolicy.com) – Armin Laschet (CDU) has praised the recent demonstrations in several cities for climate protection, a day before the Federal Elections. The sustainable restructuring of the German economy by 2045 is a great challenge, the candidate of the Union parties said. Without the CDU-CSU…
Göring-Eckardt (Greens) considers coalition with the Left to be illusory
(GermanPolicy.com) – The leader of the Greens in the Bundestag, Katrin Göring-Eckardt, thinks it is hard to imagine that her party will form a coalition with the Left Party after the Federal Election this Sunday. During the Afghanistan vote in the German parliament on the…
Söder does not rule out a Union-led grand coalition
(GermanPolicy.com) – Markus Söder (CSU), the Bavarian Prime Minister, has not ruled out cooperation with the SPD in a government after the Federal Election. “A grand coalition can come back with the SPD if it gets weaker,” he said. “The decisive factor is that we…
Laschet for support of photovoltaics
(GermanPolicy.com) – Armin Laschet (CDU), the candidate of the CDU and CSU for the office of Federal Chancellor, would like to make photovoltaics on the roof more affordable for homeowners if the Union parties win the Federal Election. After an election victory, the Reconstruction Loan…
Baerbock wants more wind power in the south and west
(GermanPolicy.com) – Annalena Baerbock, the Greens’ candidate for the office of Chancellor, would like to use two percent of the country’s area for wind energy after the Federal Election. It is crucial to “build massively in the south and west”. In the north and east,…
Kramp-Karrenbauer against weakening the Bundeswehr
(GermanPolicy.com) – Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer has warned of a weakening of the Bundeswehr. If the SPD leads the coming Federal Government, the SPD parliamentary group leader in the German Bundestag, Rolf Mützenich, refuses to respect NATO’s two percent target. “Against the background, I don’t think that…
Executives want ‘Jamaica’ alliance or ‘traffic light’ coalition
(GermanPolicy.com) – According to a survey conducted by several opinion research institutes, executives in German business and civil servants from grade A14 in administration would like to see a Jamaican coalition after the federal election. An alliance of the Union parties, the Greens and the…
Laschet warns of a ‘traffic light’ coalition
(GermanPolicy.com) – CDU-CSU chancellor candidate Armin Laschet has called on the FDP not to form an alliance with the SPD and the Greens. “The FDP would be threatened with expulsion as part of a traffic light coalition – because the left would be ready to…
