Press show: “Merz performs a balancing act with his ministers”

CDU and CSU presented their designated cabinet members for the desired black and red government. In addition to expected names, there were also tangible surprises on Monday. For example, the former Brandenburg Member of the Bundestag Katherina Reiche, the deputy CDU/CSU parliamentary group leader Johann WadePhul Foreign Minister and the CEO of the listed Ceconomy AG, Karsten Wildberger, head of the new Digital Ministry.

As expected, the previous CSU state group leader Alexander Dobrindt will be new interior minister. The CDU member of the Bundestag Patrick Schnieder is planned as the future Minister of Transport. The CDU politician Nina Warken, who comes from Baden-Württemberg, is scheduled to become Health Minister, the Schleswig-Holstein Minister of Education Karin Prien takes over the extended Ministry of Education and Family.

Söder presented the three CSU ministers in Munich. In addition to Dobrindt as interior minister, these are the previous CDU/CSU parliamentary group vice Dorothee Bär as Minister of Research and surprisingly the Lower Bavarian member of the Bundestag and trained butcher Alois Rainer as Federal Minister of Agriculture.

This is how the German press comments on the designated Merz Minister:

“New Osnabrücker Zeitung”: “Precisely because the coalition agreement between the Union and the SPD is so vague in many decisive places, it will be important to fill him with life. In this regard, for example, the CSU man Alexander Dobrindt should have a crucial role. What is done or failed to contain illegal immigration is finally in his discretion as the Interior Minister. Minister of Transport can be seen about as well as the balance of the Deutsche Bahn, for which he was once responsible: with it, the CSU can now try to provide evidence that it actually manages the mega-topic migration more determined than all red-green alternatives. “

“Märkische Oderzeitung”: “They still exist, the surprises. Or would you have had the manager Karsten Wildberger on the piece of paper? The ex-politician and energy specialist Katherina Reiche? Also on offer: a state minister with Jewish and a foreign politician with Turkish roots, which had once been folded up by Merz. From the fear that the cabinet Merz will look like at the Merkel period. And Jens Spahn was outsourced, the government team is actually around a spring -like hint of freshness and departure.

“Weser-Kurier”: “Consider that Merz does not call CDU politicians in his cabinet who have already served under Merkel. For the ‘contaminated sites’, Alexander Dobrindt and Dorothee Bär, the CSU is solely responsible. The future chancellor deliberately relies on the new. Therefore, the citizens would be well advised to get the new federal government in office and to let the interested party work. she deserves. “

“Rheinpfalz”: “Merz performs a balancing act between political experience and external expertise with his ministers. This has opportunities. On the one hand, the future Chancellor Loyal’s fellow campaigners, such as his long -time trust Thorsten Frei, who is supposed to keep his back free as a Chancellery Minister. The doctoral physicist has no political experience, but know-how from various leadership functions in the electronics and telecommunications industry.

“Stuttgarter Zeitung”: “The greatest risk for Merz is in a personnel that does not affect the government team at all. With Jens Spahn, the Union will have a parliamentary group leader who wants to be more than a noiseless organizer of majorities. Yes, Angela Merkel’s long -time faction leader Volker Kauder was bored. But Kaudel has secured power for a long time. In the Union, there are many to play the spahn, if Merz, if Merz, and The CDU in the surveys do not get out of the crisis.

“The bell”: “Fortunately, Merz, who is designed to the cabinet, such as the Schleswig-Holstein Minister of Education Karin Prien and her compatriot, the well-networked foreign politician Johann WadePhul, is not significant that the small federal state is therefore overrepresented when it comes to filling the item. For example, long members of the Bundestag and State Secretary has made a career in the energy industry in recent years.

“Heilbronn voice“:” Friedrich Merz demonstrated courage to risk when choosing the CDU ministers in the federal government. It is noteworthy that he and Karsten Reiche and Karsten Wildberger awards two top positions to representatives from the economy. The Ministry of Economic Affairs to the energy manager makes sense – after all, the energy transition is still one of the most important tasks of the federal government. It will be exciting to see how the head of MediaMarkt-Saturn will be a digital minister. CEOs are used to being implemented quickly. Now Wildberger will have to make friends with the Berlin politician cosmos with its sometimes very slow grinding mills. “