Berlin (dpa-Afx)-Chancellor Friedrich Merz has emphasized the ability to act of the black and red coalition despite the recent disputes. “This government is on a stable foundation,” said the CDU politician in his summer press conference in Berlin. “CDU, CSU and SPD will have a normal work relationship.” In every coalition, heights and successes were just as much a part of this as occasional setbacks. “But with that we deal fairly and in partnership in this coalition.”
Merz said: “That is why I will go to my summer vacation in two weeks, which we have managed in the first ten weeks. They will be short, but then I will come back with the firm will, in the second half of the year what we have started, namely to rule Germany well.”
“It’s not a crisis”
The Chancellor said that there was nothing extraordinary that frictional losses will arise in a government at the beginning and that one also had to readjust. “Honestly, it’s not a crisis either.” It was a situation that could be better. “We want that, we can do that.” He was very satisfied with the cooperation in the coalition.
Between the Union and the SPD, there were recently severe disputes over failed judge elections for the Federal Constitutional Court in the Bundestag. There is also coalition dispute over reductions in electricity tax