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Merz has a coalition – and wants to “soon” visit Trump. The situation in the morning
The coalition is not quite in dry towels yet, when Friedrich Merz, the Chancellor in Spe, announces a soon visit to Washington. What else is important.
Good morning dear readers,
“This country should work again”. “We have to get out of this bad mood”. “We have so many chances”! Nanu, where does this (purpose) optimism come from?
Union and SPD presented their coalition agreement on Wednesday. If all parties agree, Germany could get a new government in May. And so much that Results of the negotiations For pragmatism and compromises, Friedrich Merz at “ZDF today” emphasized the success of the parties. A plea for more good mood is almost an interpretation.
Good mood does not protect against difficult tasks, but it should sometimes make it easier. As a designated chancellor Merz He announced “soon” to Washington’s travel and US President Donald Trump in the ARD “focus”. He “got greetings from him” and also had greetings aligned.
In the White House, he wants to propose a zero-inch policy with Europe-that is, the EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen recently failed. “The best way to do zero tariffs together in transatlantic trade is then solved,” he told the colleagues of RTL. And if that won’t work? “We have to perceive our interests”.
Stay confident and have a nice day!
What the GroKo urgently needs now
The coalition agreement is standing, but that does not make a good government of the prospective grand coalition. What Union and SPD urgently need, they analyze star-Politics bosses in the daily podcast “five-minute talk”.
Baby happiness in Lindner and Lehfeldt
For ex-finance minister Christian Lindner, a new chapter of life begins. He and journalist Franca Lehfeldt became “a few days ago” of her first child. “We are overjoyed and feel great gratitude that we are now a family,” the couple visibly proudly writes.
In December, Lindner had caused a small outcry when he announced that he did not want to take any parental leave. This is “not intended” for politicians. Now the FDP flew out of the Bundestag in February and Lindner has withdrawn from active politics. He may see it differently now. Congratulations!
What else is important today
- The CSU is the first of the three parties to advise the coalition agreement, the first results are available in the afternoon. The CDU decides on a small party congress on April 28 on the paper, the SPD in a member survey.
- The Federal Administrative Court is negotiating the state -financed office of former Chancellor Gerhard Schröder. In May 2022, shortly after the beginning of the Russian attack war against Ukraine, it was deleted by the Bundestag’s budget committee and “died”.Read here what the privileges of German former chancellors cost.
- And in the Europa League, Frankfurt meets Tottenham in the quarter-final first leg, see from 9:00 p.m. at RTL. Good kick!
Transparency note: the star is part of RTL Germany.
With material from the agencies.
Source: Stern
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