Nach den schlechten Ergebnissen bei der EU-Wahl stellt sich für SPD, Grüne und FDP immer mehr die Frage, ob und wie lange ihre Koalition noch hält. Das nächste große Problem steht bereits an: die Haushaltsverhandlungen für 2025. Bereits Anfang Juli will man sich geeinigt haben. Dass man sich über die Frage nach Einsparungen oder Schulden … Read more
The center-right Christian Democrats were the clear victors on Sunday, winning 30.2 percent of the vote according to a projection for German public television. The extreme-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) also put in a strong showing, finishing second with 16 percent, a gain of 5 percentage points compared to the 2019 EU election. The party … Read more
Nach dem Tod des 29-jährigen Polizisten in Mannheim nehmen die Diskussionen um politisch und religiös motivierte Gewalt neue Fahrt auf. Welche Folgen könnten die Attacke und der Tod von Polizist Rouven L. für den Ausgang der EU-Wahl in Deutschland haben? Die Analyse zusammen mit POLITICO-Europa-Experte Hans von der Burchard in dieser Ausgabe. Außerdem beschäftigt Deutschland … Read more
Lindner gegen Heil – das Rentenpaket II ist heute im Kabinett: Aber die FDP ist nach wie vor nicht einverstanden und wartet nur darauf, im Parlament Veränderungen zu erkämpfen. Eines der wichtigsten Projekte der Ampel-Regierung hat erst lange auf sich warten lassen. Heute ist das Rentenpaket im Kabinett im Juli im Bundesrat, dann folgt der … Read more
While the signals are now strong that Europe will agree to the U.S.-led proposal to leverage the future profits of the assets to issue a €50 billion loan to Ukraine, countries such as France and Germany fear their taxpayers will be on the hook if Kyiv can’t pay the loan back once the war is … Read more
Pistorius has limited financial wiggle room to invest in Germany’s military to make it “fit for war,” as he recently put it. That is because of Germany’s so-called “debt brake,” which restricts the federal deficit to 0.35 percent of GDP, except in times of emergency. Pistorius, a social democrat, has been campaigning to exempt defense spending from … Read more
Her comments follow an op-ed published the same day by Finance Minister Christian Lindner, who wrote that Europe must stick to nuclear deterrence given Trump’s comments. According to Strack-Zimmermann, Lindner was referring to France, but she stressed it’s clear that Europe as a whole must work more closely. Ramping up nuclear defense would mean getting … Read more
BERLIN, GERMANY – NOVEMBER 15: German Finance Minister Christian Lindner gives a statement to the media at the Chancellery following the weekly government cabinet meeting on November 15, 2023 in Berlin, Germany. The topic was a ruling by the German Constitutional Court declaring that the coalition government’s shift of federal money in 2021 originally earmarked … Read more
BERLIN — The rulers of Germany’s fractious three-party coalition government can breathe a small sigh of relief. In an internal party referendum, some 52 percent of members of the fiscally conservative Free Democratic Party (FDP) supported remaining in the ruling coalition, relieving some of the pressure on the FDP’s leadership to withdraw from the alliance … Read more
Press play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. BERLIN — German Chancellor Olaf Scholz made a simple promise to Germans after taking office: “You’ll never walk alone.” Scholz, a Social Democrat, borrowed the phrase from Liverpool Football Club’s anthem and has invoked it, mantra-like, at moments of tension, such as when Russia … Read more
