Delphine Nerbollier
Berlin
Published on November 7, 2024 at 5:33 p.m. / Modified on November 7, 2024 at 5:34 p.m.
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German Chancellor Olaf Scholz dismissed his Finance Minister Christian Lindner on Wednesday evening due to lack of agreement to complete the 2025 budget
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Christian Lindner ignited the powder by advocating an “economic change of course”
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This dismissal comes as the election of Donald Trump in the United States will further increase pressure on the German economy
“It’s the economy that matters, idiot.” This slogan delivered in 1992 by the Democratic candidate for the American presidency Bill Clinton has found a particular echo in Germany since yesterday. The fundamental economic differences between the German liberals of the FDP and their coalition partners, the Social Democrats (SPD) and the Greens (Bündnis 90/Die Grünen), have indeed sounded the death knell for the federal government. After months of cacophony, clashes of egos and arguments in public, Chancellor Olaf Scholz dismissed his Finance Minister, Christian Lindner, on Wednesday evening, for lack of agreement to complete the 2025 budget. Accusing his minister of “privileging his clientele electoral” and having “disappointed him, on several occasions”, Olaf Scholz put an end to two years and eleven months of a coalition among the most unloved in the history of the country.
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