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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 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.
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 ...
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]
A coalition government is a cabinet of a government in which several parties cooperate. The usual reason given for this arrangement is that no party on its own can achieve a majority in the parliament .
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 ...
West Germany was a founding member of the European Community in 1958, which became the EU in 1993. Germany is part of the Schengen Area, and has been a member of the eurozone since 1999. It is a member of the United Nations, NATO, the G7, the G20 and the OECD. The Economist Intelligence Unit rated Germany a "full democracy" in 2022.