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Pressing votes for the financial package cleaning: “A dirty piece of power policy”
Union and SPD have the Greens on board for their financial package, but have to make great concessions. The press does not see the only problem for Friedrich Merz.
It was a long struggle, in the end there was an agreement: now it looks like the multimillian financial package for defense and infrastructure in the Bundestag could exist. Union and the SPD have agreed with the Greens, but had to make some concessions.
The Federal Constitutional Court also gave its consent to coordination in the old Bundestag. The budget committee meets on Sunday and makes a recommendation for the Bundestag. The final decision is then planned for Tuesday. The press sees the Greens as the big winners of the negotiations – and for Friedrich Merz, problems are raised before he is a chancellor.
This is how the press sees the agreement on the financial package
“star”: “Like Miriam Hollstein, chief reporter of the star, Looking at the agreement, read.
“Straubinger Tagblatt / Landshuter Zeitung”: “CDU boss Friedrich Merz likes to be like the big Zampano. But others in the approval thriller for the debt brake and special fund in the Bundestag-the Greens. Merz as a debt chancellor instead of reformers, who would have thought that? (…) The whole country longs for the traffic light chaos for a stable government. Has and shows where it is not possible.
“Weser-Kurier”: “Union and SPD do not deserve a beauty prize. The campaign was more of a dirty piece of power policy. But necessary, because in view of the composition of the new Bundestag, it should hardly be possible in the future to secure the necessary defense capacity of Germany and Europe. But there is no change in the Basic Law: an unreasonable burden on the upcoming generation. Many times higher than the interest payments that come to them because the investments due are now finally made. “
“Stuttgarter Zeitung”: “The Chancellor in SPE has overcome a delicate hurdle on the way to power. He has managed the unique feat so that the old parliament will roll out a red carpet through which he can move into the Chancellery with immense start -up capital. What remains is his credibility. And what is now followed is no longer to blame – as in the event that the Greens are the role of From now on, Merz & Co.
“Nürnberger Nachrichten”: “What the Greens suggested was now in the compromise that is probably free to make the way for the new government. (…) This can become a credible, strong answer to the challenges that are imminent. A strong signal that Germany wants to fill out its role as a motor of Europe – in times of growing uncertainty, even threats.
“Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung”: “The agreement with the Greens brings Merz to his goal of becoming Federal Chancellor. But she also enlarges the mortgage, which he had to absorb in order to enable his party to return to power and thus to initiate the change of direction, which CDU and CSU had promised in the election campaign. Merz, of course, the Union and the SPD can show that they also want to do the reforms (…) If the new government is available for comprehensive modernization, the Union could forgive the debt. “
“Münchner Merkur”: “At the end of the psycho-red XXL debt package, there is a green capitulation victory: 100 billion for the climate shovel CDU, CSU and SPD free, more than the Greens could have ever dreamed. This is balm for some wounds, the Robert Habeck and his in the campaign. Friedrich Merz, however, starts with a severe mortgage in his chancellorship: to accuse of the fraud and addiction to wastewater, the criticism of having managed a difficult negotiation situation is now involved. “
“T-Online”: “Merz is now likely to get his financial package through the Bundestag. This is important, because otherwise the CDU boss would have been with hardly any solvable problems. Only he has to ask himself: At what price? The CDU chairman has thrown almost all political guidelines overboard in the past few weeks-without batting the Wimper. Not only to bring out some of your party, but also to show the black-red coalition before it started.
“The standard” (Austria): “Friedrich Merz has calculated. The Greens do not just want to abnice, but have their own demands. That is their right. However, Merz did not consider this quite understandable way. He also underestimated the frustration that was dammed up with the Greens. It was not particularly smart or far -sighted. But at least these negotiations for the billion -out mercy were one, even before he was a single day: still has to learn a lot. “
Source: Stern
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