Coalition before the summit meeting: New faces, new dynamics? News

Recently tried Union and SPD especially, programmatically separate from each other. Now the tops of the coalition to come together again - with new faces. It is likely to be controversial.

By Sabine Müller, ARD-capital Studio

If you start at 18 PM in the Chancellery, probably first with a kind of warm-up round, as a group with the two new faces of Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer and Markus Söder new einzugrooven?

Not needed, says Union Leader Ralph Brinkhaus, it States, the judder is nothing to "correct", since you know already for a long time. "We have talked about before."

SPD Leader Andrea Nahles looks a little different: "It is something Special that we come together in this constellation for the first Time." Of course, you have regular contact, both in person and over the phone. This was yet again something else. "I'm excited because of that also," said Nahles.

The two new faces in the coalition Committee: Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer and Markus Söder

More independence in the body

the dynamic of The group changed probably quite a bit, now that the new heads of the CDU and the CSU are neither part of government nor part of the Federal tags. Thus, they are independent. So, they are not included, for example, in the Cabinet discipline.

at All of the coalition Committee should be upside down a little, he is away from the Image as a crisis instrument, if it is on fire. Nahles will find good and right that the coalition wants to try, in the future, regular to days - to the Committee to take the "extraordinary".

Approximately every four to six weeks, you want to meet now. The next appointment for mid-March. Brinkhaus the expectations of the Meeting tonight, down: "This will not be a dramatic coalition Committee, where there is great strife." Instead, you will discuss in the first place, "how to do it in the next few weeks and months," said the CDU parliamentary leader.

Söder iron out a salvation plan for the

But it is controversial subjects are. It is likely to go to the land tax, network expansion, INF disarmament Treaty, the solidarity surcharge and the basic pension plans of the SPD Minister of social Affairs Hubertus Heil, the Union urgently would like to talk.

salvation concept, one could not so, said CSU chief Söder and announced at the same time, in the evening, their own plans for the basic pension shall be provided and such that are in line with what was agreed in the coalition agreement.

in a Bad mood threatens in the Chancellery but, even if the Union and the SPD delimit very consciously and clearly separated from each other. The SPD have set out an Agenda for the SPD, CDU Boss Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer. "And we are working on the Agenda for Germany."

But the coalition partners at the Moment, two things very carefully separated from one another: the party, government, trade the other thing is to act. And first of all nothing is decided at the Chancellery tonight probably anyway.

"Not dramatically," - the views of the coalition Committee
Sabine Müller, ARD Berlin
13.02.2019 11:37 PM

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The modest SPD-plans are easily affordable. There is of Mia. ? per year the speech. For the military in the near future, 20, maybe even 30 Billion. ? per year more available. Who is not, considers this to be financially viable, such as Söder, and brinkhaus, that but makes the simply ridiculous....

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