A Year Of Coalition Government

The national parties have stood in 2018, the task to argue in moderation. Because you have failed. A year in review to a reissue of the Grand coalition.

A comment by Achim Wendler, ARD-capital Studio

At Schloss Meseberg in Brandenburg, there is neither climbing course, even Bowling lanes. So nothing for team building. Nevertheless, the Cabinet Merkel IV met at the kick-off meeting in April 2018 in the Guesthouse of the government. Finally, the Vice Chancellor Olaf Scholz told the Public: "team building." That was beautifully concise and clear, but unfortunately also wrong.

Merkel and her Ministers were not a Team, on the contrary. In Fairness it should be said that the parties in this coalition, heavier than ever before. Because never before, the strategic conflict between the profile of education on the one hand, and a compromise was forced on the other hand, so dramatic.

More than a test

were, Certainly, have always been coalition partners in the conflict, as a party recognizable, and I always find compromises. But the Federal election of 2017, everything had changed. They shook the people's party and washed down with the AfD a new force in the Bundestag. To speak of a litmus test for the Union and the SPD, would be belittling.

And now the CDU, CSU and SPD are doomed to cooperation, after the Failure of a Jamaica coalition. If Merkel's case the word "alternative" ever, then on your third Grand coalition.

the CDU, CSU and SPD: collaboration hell.

armed, Yes, but not endless

In 2018, the people would have had to demonstrate to the parties that they have not only understood, as you claim. But that you have an idea of how much the dispute is the use and when it hurts. It is, Yes, the Germans rejected the political dispute flatly. This is wrong: What is weary of the endless dispute about a thing.

21. March 2018, the Chancellor gave her first government Declaration. This is the sentence, "that with the 4.5 million of us Muslims living their Religion, Islam, is now a part of Germany".

The directed against Horst Seehofer. The CSU chief had said in one of his first Interviews as Minister of the interior, although the Muslims to Germany, not Islam. Thus, the coalition had their first fight, held on the open stage, also in the framework of the government Declaration!

And so it went on. Rough collisions, in short: Grand coalition. After a few weeks was required after a "power word of the Chancellor." But Merkel-in-law. Because Horst Seehofer was right, as he anraunzte Merkel Interview that she was "only because of me, Chancellor." Certainly, without CSU, is no Grand coalition. But SPD Leader Andrea Nahles would be able to say the sentence with the same privilege. Registrar-maker was by no means the "only" Seehofer.

The old refugee armed

The more Interesting is the despair that comes in Seehofer's Raunzer. The first days of July the climax of the dispute year Of 2018 were: Supposedly it was a question of whether or already somewhere else-registered asylum seekers are to be rejected at the German border. Behind the large, old refugee dispute.

Seehofer wanted him to finally put an end to really not come to terms with the commitment of the Chancellor, in 2015 will not happen again. He wanted to define the necessary instruments. That's why he called back instructions to the border.