Has the FDP, as party leader, decreed a necessary process of self-discovery.
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Olaf Scholz carried out the coalition negotiations silently, quickly and even without a major argument over such difficult personnel issues. For this, the chancellor-to-be deserves respect – even if the unity that is on display and the somewhat penetrating “we-feeling” of the coalition partners must make us skeptical.
Initially, there are also no particularly high demands behind their credo. Striving for progress should be a matter of course. To do the opposite, not to dare to make progress, would be a scandal. And the new pragmatism that Red-Yellow-Green is now tirelessly calling out, yes, it helps first. But pragmatism needs, if it is to lead to something, a common set of values. And that’s where the new coalition’s problems begin.
Social, liberal and ecological – bringing these together is anything but trivial. For the first time since the unfortunate Black-Yellow coalition of 2010, liberalism has a voice in the federal government.
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