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In November 2024, the newspapers Die Zeit and Süddeutsche Zeitung found evidence that Lindner's paper was part of a broader plan by the FDP to intentionally cause the collapse of the coalition. [15] Lindner's paper was deemed a "provocation" by The Greens and SPD, who considered his positions incompatible with the coalition agreement. [12]
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 coalition of SPD, Greens and FDP was an arrangement known as a "traffic light coalition" in German politics after the parties' traditional colours, respectively red, yellow and green, matching the colours of a traffic light (Ampel). This traffic light coalition-government was the first of its kind at the federal level in the history of the ...
The chancellor said he would call a vote of confidence in his government early next year.
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 German economic crisis is a significant downturn of Germany's economy that marked a dramatic reversal of its previous "labour market miracle" period of 2005–2019. The country, which had been considered to be Europe's economic powerhouse in prior decades, became the worst-performing major economy globally in 2023 with a 0.3% contraction, followed by minimal growth in 2024 leaning on ...
BERLIN (Reuters) -The far right's first victory in a German state election in the post-war era prompted soul-searching in Berlin on Monday, but Chancellor Olaf Scholz's battered and unloved ...
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]