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Brussels – White smoke in Berlin<\/strong>. After weeks of intense negotiations, the Christian Democrats have come to an agreement\u00a0with the Socialists<\/strong> to give the country a government. The new “great coalition<\/strong>” now faces many challenges, including lifting Germany out of years of recession and returning it to its traditional role as the locomotive of Europe<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The motto of the new German government will be “reform and invest<\/strong>.” This was stated by the head of the CDU, Friedrich Merz<\/strong>, as he announced\u00a0this afternoon (April 9) to the press that he had reached an agreement to form the new executive <\/strong>with\u00a0the leader of the CSU (the Bavarian party that, together with the CDU, forms the Union), Markus S\u00f6der<\/strong>, and the leadership of the SPD Social Democrats, Saskia Esken<\/strong> and Lars Klingbeil<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

“We have a strong plan in front of us with which we can move our country forward again<\/strong>,” said Merz, who should now have his way to the federal chancellery by replacing Olaf Scholz<\/strong>. The Christian Democrat leader stressed that the agreement\u2014which came following complex talks<\/a>\u00a0that lasted for several weeks\u2014sends a clear signal to allies<\/strong> on both sides of the Atlantic about the fact that “Germany is back on track<\/strong>” and that Berlin is ready to lead the EU again (perhaps in tune with Paris) at this convulsive historical juncture.<\/p>\n

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“This #coalition agreement<\/a> is a strong and clear signal – to the citizens of our country, but also to our partners in Europe: Germany will have a strong government capable of taking action.” ™https:\/\/t.co\/lkzYLUegCJ<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/NNmAvllAba<\/a><\/p>\n

– Friedrich Merz (@_FriedrichMerz) April 9, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Among the political priorities at the top of the Gro\u00dfeKoalition agenda are a decisive crackdown on irregular immigration<\/strong>, a\u00a0substantial increase in defence spending<\/strong> (for which the historic debt brake reform<\/a> has been crucial) and the restoration of the German economy<\/strong>, asphyxiated by more than two years of recession and now seriously<\/strong> threatened by the tariffs<\/strong> imposed by the White House. The program then includes measures to support the electric car<\/strong> industry, bring energy prices<\/strong> under control, cut corporate taxes<\/strong>, and reduce taxes<\/strong> for middle and low incomes.<\/p>\n

As for the distribution of the cabinets<\/strong> of the new federal government, the Social Democrats are expected to get seven ministries<\/strong>, including the weighty ones of Defence (which is likely to remain with Boris Pistorius<\/strong>) and Finance (which should instead go to Klingbeil<\/strong>) as well as those related to Labour, Environment, and Justice. An unsurprising success achieved in negotiations, given the debacle <\/i>suffered in the polls<\/strong>\u00a0in the early elections<\/a> last February.<\/p>\n

The Union parties will share\u00a0the remaining nine portfolios, assigning six to the CDU<\/strong> (including Foreign Affairs, which will probably go to Johann Wadephul<\/strong>, and the Economy) and three to S\u00f6der’s Bavarian CSU<\/strong>, which will get\u00a0the Interior (possibly for Alexander Dobrindt<\/strong>). It will now be up to the individual political forces to decide on the names for\u00a0the various ministries. The new executive is expected to formally take office in May<\/strong>\u00a0after the SPD’s base has\u00a0spoken on today’s agreement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Friedrich Merz is expected to lead the next executive, a coalition of conservatives and socialists, at a time of serious international instability. Coming up is a crackdown on immigration, an increase in military spending, and a reduction in the tax burden on citizens and businesses<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7876,"featured_media":423915,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"format":"standard","override":[{"template":"1","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0","subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25681],"tags":[26267,26473,29635,30751,30651,30652,30653,27786],"class_list":["post-423918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-cdu-csu-en","tag-friedrich-merz-en","tag-grand-coalition-en","tag-lars-klingbeil-en","tag-markus-soder-en","tag-saskia-esken-en","tag-spd-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7876"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=423918"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":423931,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423918\/revisions\/423931"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/423915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}