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Finance Minister Klingbeil and his SPD have asserted themselves: there is no reduction in electricity tax for all, even large parts of the economy are left out. The fact that Chancellor Merz had to break a promise again is also due to an unfair division of labour in the Union.
Berliner Morgenpost
The dispute over the electricity tax affects many like a traffic light Deja-Vu. In the evening Merz, Klingbeil & Co. met in the chancellor's office.
The chancellor and his vice-president agreed – but they made the bill without their own people. The coalition committee is about cheap electricity and the question: how do they get out of the matter?
Listen on Spotify Apple Music Amazon Music Electricity tax, conscription, citizen's income – the issues facing the coalition committee are solvable, yet a stress test. This is especially true for Friedrich Merz and Lars Klingbeil, who constantly have to switch between government ambitions and party desires and balance them. Rasmus Buchsteiner analyzes how this puts both under pressure. In a 200-second interview, Juso leader Philipp Türmer com…
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