Traffic light coalition: demonstrative u • Table.Briefings

The agreement is in place, now the party congresses or, in the case of the Greens, the members still have to approve it. The presentation of the coalition agreement and its contents already gives an idea of how the coalition is to function. As yet unresolved personnel issues point to internal disagreement.

„The traffic light stands.“ With this sentence, which is both a goal and a central insight, Chancellor-designate Olaf Scholz yesterday opened the presentation of the coalition agreement between the SPD, Alliance 90/The Greens and the FDP. Scholz, FDP leader Christian Lindner, the Green party leadership duo Annalena Baerbock and Robert Habeck, and SPD leader Saskia Esken and her outgoing co-chair Norbert Walter-Borjans never tired of emphasizing how much closer they had become.

Traffic light coalition: demonstrative unity and open questions

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