FDP: self-assertion at the expense of th • Table.Briefings

Party leader Lindner and other liberal ministers are trying to raise the profile of the FDP – disputes like the one over the internal combustion engine phase-out are certainly welcome. However, the Free Democrats do not want to acknowledge damage at the European level.

Christian Lindner only informed his colleagues from the other EU countries shortly before the start of the Euro Group meeting last Monday: Germany would not support the joint declaration on the reform of fiscal rules as it stood, the German finance minister sent out. Most of the other ministers were caught off guard; after all, the German government had agreed to the text at the level of state secretaries and EU ambassadors.

FDP: self-assertion at the expense of the EU

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