Reason for the small group meeting is also that the SPD Chancellor candidate Olaf Scholz as acting Federal Minister of Finance will be at the meeting of the G20 finance ministers in Washington until this Thursday. Scholz was confident on Wednesday that there would be a traffic light government before Christmas. “The soundings are taking place in a very, very good and constructive atmosphere,” he said in Washington. That is why he is sure that the project of the SPD, Greens and FDP can be realized. “Namely that we have a new government before Christmas.”
The chief of the Young Liberals, Jens Teutrine, formulated “a modernization agenda for the country that will break the political deadlock of recent years” as a prerequisite for a traffic light alliance. For such a coalition it takes “more than just legal weed,” Teutrine told the editorial network Germany with a view to the intersections of the three partners, including the legalization of cannabis. What is needed is an agenda for social advancement, a student loan reform, a “grandchildren-fit pension reform” including the introduction of a statutory share pension, an increase in the mini-job limits and greater comparability in the education system.