The pictures from the balcony gave a harmonious impression in October 2017, which came to an abrupt end after four weeks. From left to right: Anton Hofreiter (Greens), Nicola Beer, (FDP), Christian Lindner (FDP), Katrin Göring-Eckardt (Greens), Wolfgang Kubicki (FDP) on October 19, 2017.
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Berlin The former Green parliamentary group leader and Environment Minister Jürgen Trittin assumes that a future three-party coalition in the federal government has good prospects of success. “It will not be an easy conversation,” Trittin told the Handelsblatt. “But if everyone involved has the will to come to a result in order to govern, then even difficult questions can be solved.”
2017 should not be repeated, the Greens and Liberals agree. At that time, the Union, the Greens and the FDP explored the formation of a Jamaica coalition. The talks were broken off after four weeks by the FDP. “It is better not to govern than to govern wrongly,” said FDP leader Christian Lindner at the time. Four years later, the Greens and the FDP enter the talks with the confidence that they have drawn the right lessons from 2017, despite some extreme differences in their positions.
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