Germany: Tremors in the governing coalition: “I am the chancellor”, emphasized Olaf Solz –

Chancellor Olaf Solz today did not hide his annoyance at the problems of the governing coalition, at the same time appealing to his partners for “seriousness”.

“I am the chancellor. The point is to overcome the challenges we face in the difficult times we live in. The issue is the economy and jobs. The issue is pragmatism, not ideology. There are issues that need to be resolved and to do that, one has to work hard. That’s what I expect from everyone,” Olaf Solz said in response to a related question during a press conference he gave earlier this evening with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte.

The chancellor had earlier met with Economy Minister Robert Habeck (Greens) and Finance Minister Christian Lindner (FDP) in an attempt to bridge the gap caused by the position text presented by the latter last week, which largely I doubt his party’s participation in the government, as it calls for an almost complete reversal of the current policy.

“We don’t want the rupture. And we assume that the others will also be faithful to the government agreement and that we will finish the work we are doing here together,” said Greens leader Omid Nuripour, while Mr Hambek warned that “it is the worst time to dissolve the government ” and spoke of “bad days for Germany which did not contribute to the strengthening of confidence in the federal government” and expressed his understanding of the citizens’ frustration. An appeal for “all of us to pull together a little and just do our job”, addressed the Minister of Foreign Affairs Analena Burbok, invoking from Ukraine the “spirit of international responsibility”.

However, Robert Habeck now appears willing to budget the resources that were meant to subsidize Intel’s investment, which was to build a semiconductor factory in Germany. The funds “can of course now contribute to narrowing the fiscal gap,” said the finance minister, who has so far sought to allocate the roughly 10 billion resources to climate projects. The three partners are expected to meet again tomorrow, ahead of the government committee, which is scheduled to meet on Wednesday afternoon.

A possible breakup of the governing coalition would also cause serious problems for the Greens, who will elect their new leadership in the middle of the month and planned to decide on their campaign strategy and new program next March. An early election campaign would therefore be difficult from an organizational point of view. On the contrary, the Christian Union (CDU/CSU) claims to have been in electoral readiness for a long time. Christian Democratic Party (CDU) general secretary Carsten Linnemann said today that the government “must now take greater political responsibility and end the matter – Germany needs a restart and elections as soon as possible”. The general secretary of the Christian Social Union (CSU) Martin Huber even asked the federal president Frank-Walter Steinmeier to intervene “and make it clear to those who are arguing that it is time for elections”.