The meeting of the coalition committee had been repeatedly interrupted.
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Berlin According to Chancellor Olaf Scholz, the SPD, Greens and FDP have clarified the most important issues in the coalition committee. “There will be very, very, very good results here,” said Scholz on Tuesday in Berlin.
“I’m very, very confident that we can do a great job,” added the SPD politician. The “main questions” have been clarified, details are still at stake.
Scholz downplayed the duration of the negotiations since Sunday evening. There have also been very long consultations in previous governments. It is now important that, as the fourth largest economy in the world, you do everything right. It is about accelerating the pace of decisions. “So the effort makes sense. It will be worth it,” he said.
The committee interrupted its meeting several times. On Monday, parts of the government traveled to the Netherlands for joint consultations. Scholz also received Kenyan President William Ruto in Berlin on Tuesday afternoon.
Scholz praised the good work done between the three parties. “It is about the greatest modernization of an economy. In the traffic light coalition, this debate also gives rise to the feeling “that it is we who have to do it,” he said in view of the allegations by the opposition, for example, that the traffic light was hopelessly divided.
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