First agreement between CDU/CSU and SPD to form the government in Germany. Now that it happens

The German conservatives of the CDU/CSU, led by the chancellor in pectore Friedrich Merz, and the SPD socialists have reached an agreement that starts the formal interviews for the establishment of a New government in Germany. Strong of sufficient numbers for a fairly comfortable majority, the first and third party released from the polls of February 23, which they saw AFD nationalists to jump in second place with 20%, They therefore prepare for a re -edition of the great coalition that has led Germany for many years under the Chancellery of Angela Merkel.

The announcement comes after not even two weeks of exploratory dialogue, at the end of which a common document has been developed that sets the key points of the future government program, an acceleration that was imposed by a very critical context on the front of international policy and security. With the US oriented towards a disengagement from the Old Continent and intent on dealing with Moscow in Ukraine a peace that excludes Kiev and Europe, nor Germany nor its EU partners can afford too long for the formation of an executive that will have a main priority a priority a priority colossal rearmament plan.

For this purpose, the creation of a special 500 billion fund and a constitutional modification that to the limits to debt. For the approval of these measures, indispensable to adequately increase investments in defense, however, the majority of two thirds of the Bundestag will be needed, at the moment still in its old composition.
Merz has therefore already appealed to the Greens Because the changes in a special session that will have to be held before March 23, when the new parliamentarians will be voted. By Easter At most, the head of the Union intends to close the interviews with the SPD on the government program.

For the moment, Merz has assured that he had reached with the socialists “An agreement on a whole series of substantial issues”, As he explained in a joint press conference with Markus Soeder, president of the CSU, the Bavarian branch of the Union, and the two SPD co -residents, Lars Klingbeil and Saskia Esken.

“We have a common document that constitutes the basis for coalition negotiations,” said Merz, “the measures bring our joint signature. It can be assumed that everything we present here has been jointly decided”.

To what emerged from the press conference and the reconstructions of the German media, CDU has sold on the austerity front to grant the SPD more funds for social spending, in exchange for the support for close on immigration promised by conservatories in the election campaign. Merz has announced that, from the first day of his settlement, borders checks will be expanded and, in a second phase, a policy of rejections will be implemented on the border.

The program of the next government: immigration, subsidies, minimum wages

The reform of the citizenship of the Scholz government, which had shortened the period of residence necessary for naturalization from eight to five years, however remains in force, at least for the moment since Soeder returned to ask for a stop family reunification. The SPD, for its part, brings home the mention, in the document, of a legal minimum wage of 15 euros The hour, a reduction in the price of industrial electricity and subsidies for the purchase of electric cars. The two parties also agreed on a reform of harder unemployment subsidies with those who refuse offers of employment and on one deduction of extraordinary.

Now the green light of the party committees to the text will be needed. Immediately after, Unione and SPD will be able to start working on the coalition agreement, a document in which the two parties will have to indicate in detail the political initiatives that intend to undertake in the next five years and who will hold which office in the next government.

Special Defense Fund

For the moment everyone traces a positive balance of the talks carried out so far. Klingbeil defined the “constructive” meetings, Soeder spoke of a “day of unity”. And Merz has declared his will to start official negotiations already next week.
But before he still urges the Greens to vote on the special defense fund. And it won’t be simple.

Felix Banaszak and Franziska Bartner, lids of the ecological party, have already made it known that the document presented today by CDU/CSU and SPD “makes the approval of the constitutional modification necessary to the Resto plane. The Greens have proved to be in recent years more atlantist party and more strenuous in the defense of Ukraine, but they claim that Merz focuses too much on strengthening of the army In terms of men and ammunition and not enough on technological renewal, starting from computer security.