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Additionally, the country entered an economic crisis while under leadership of the traffic light coalition, leading to falling approval ratings. [6] In November 2023, Germany's Federal Constitutional Court (Bundesverfassungsgericht) declared parts of the government's budget policy unconstitutional.
The three parties in Germany's ruling coalition are facing increasing pressure to assert themselves following a series of regional election blows and dismal polls, raising doubts about whether it ...
The collapse of Germany's governing coalition and President-elect Donald Trump's imminent return to the White House are creating new risks for the European Union's biggest economy, already in a ...
The chancellor said he would call a vote of confidence in his government early next year.
A coalition government might also be created in a time of national difficulty or crisis, for example during wartime, to give a government the high degree of perceived political legitimacy it desires whilst also playing a role in diminishing internal political strife.
Such a coalition was in power between 2012 and 2017 under minister president Torsten Albig. In December 2021, following the September German general elections, a traffic light coalition (SPD, FDP, and Greens) led by Olaf Scholz took power in Germany, the first time a three-party coalition had formed at the federal level. [6]
The traffic light coalition has therefore been likened to a "Zimbabwe coalition", according to Zimbabwe's flag (red, green, and yellow, plus black for the Christian Democrats). [11] The Christian Democrats used their veto, for example, to preserve sanctions in Germany's unemployment benefit reform ( Bürgergeld ) [ 12 ] and to prevent the ...
This is a list of wars involving Germany from 962. It includes the Holy Roman Empire, Confederation of the Rhine, the German Confederation, the North German Confederation, the German Empire, the Weimar Republic, Nazi Germany, the German Democratic Republic (DDR, "East Germany") and the present Federal Republic of Germany (BRD, until German reunification in 1990 known as "West Germany").