{"id":139669,"date":"2025-05-28T21:08:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-28T21:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/139669\/"},"modified":"2025-05-28T21:08:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T21:08:09","slug":"merzs-coalition-agrees-on-policy-program-aimed-at-boosting-germanys-economy-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/139669\/","title":{"rendered":"Merz\u2019s coalition agrees on policy program aimed at boosting Germany\u2019s economy \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The package contains no unexpected measures but brings back 62 highlights from the coalition agreement \u2014\u00a0which the government wants to have on track before the mid-July parliamentary summer break.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This was the first coalition committee meeting between Friedrich Merz\u2019s Christian Democratic Union party and Vice-Chancellor Lars Klingbeil\u2019s Social Democrats, and lasted just a few hours. They agreed to hold such meetings as a regular fixture.<\/p>\n<p>It was considered a good start by observers. Meetings of the previous government, led by Olaf Scholz, often lasted until the early hours of the morning and became more of a crisis instrument. Scholz&#8217;s government <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/germany-coalition-government-collapse-olaf-scholz-finance-minister-christian-lindner\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fell apart during a fractious coalition committee meeting on Nov. 6, 2024<\/a>, leading to new elections this year.<\/p>\n<p>Among the 62 measures agreed are tax changes including a reduction in the electricity tax and on-trend, regulation-busting moves: The national supply chain act will be abolished, for example, and the document states that the European supply chain act should be implemented \u201cin a low-bureaucracy and enforcement-friendly manner.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Besides economic issues, the program includes items on migration, electoral law, modernization of the state and a subject close to the heart of European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/germany-europe-shoot-more-wolves-eu-commission\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the hunting of wolves<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt&#8217;s all happening now,\u201d Merz said in a statement to present the program.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Klingbeil, who also serves as finance minister, added: &#8220;We all want to see improvements quickly in everyday life, at work and in every region.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The package contains no unexpected measures but brings back 62 highlights from the coalition agreement \u2014\u00a0which the government&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":139670,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[42368,6659,1312,7964,2000,299,474,1824,6084,7337,6648,1200],"class_list":{"0":"post-139669","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-christian-lindner","9":"tag-crisis","10":"tag-electricity","11":"tag-enforcement","12":"tag-eu","13":"tag-europe","14":"tag-finance","15":"tag-germany","16":"tag-infrastructure","17":"tag-olaf-scholz","18":"tag-supply-chains","19":"tag-tax"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114587507323502065","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}