All three coalition partners had to jump far beyond their shadows in the first 100 days.
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Olaf Scholz (SPD) likes to be right. And he was right. However, it was very different from what he might have imagined. “We have major tasks ahead of us and we are setting the course, which we are now making because we have to set the right course for the future,” said the Federal Chancellor in his first government statement in mid-December. “We have no time to lose.”
That’s correct. But the pressure to reform comes from a different angle than Scholz thought at the time. His traffic light government has only been in office for 100 days – and the outbreak of the Ukraine war was not on their list. The traffic light government now has to keep its promise to “dare more progress” at a hurry – and in a completely different way than outlined in the 178 pages of the coalition agreement.
Scholz is fundamentally readjusting foreign and security policy, away from “change through trade” and towards military deterrence. For Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck (Greens), in view of the energy crisis, security of supply now takes precedence over climate protection.
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