Future government: Merz wants to improve mood in the country until summer - Global Happenings

Friedrich Merz is to be elected Chancellor on 6 May. The CDU chief outlines how it should go on afterwards. In order to be able to decide a lot quickly, the summer break of the Bundestag is to be shortened. However, he continues to make a reduction in income tax subject to "retention of funding".

On 6 May, Friedrich Merz will be elected Chancellor. The CDU chief outlines how things will go on afterwards. This also includes an unusual step.

The German parliament will vote on the appointment of Friedrich Merz as chancellor on May 6, and people familiar with the matter said the next head of state will travel to Paris on May 7.

Tightened border controls with rejections, measures to reduce bureaucracy and the introduction of the active pension are to be the first measures of the new government.

CDU leader Friedrich Merz wants to shorten the summer recess to gain time for urgently planned reforms. "We want to extend the Bundestag's working hours into the summer this year," Merz told the Funke media group newspapers. "This is important so that our program, which must be passed in the first half of the year, can also be adopted by parliament." In concrete terms, this means that, unlike usual, the German Bundestag will meet well into July.…

Future government: Merz wants to improve mood in the country until summer - Global Happenings

Probably future Chancellor Friedrich Merz wants to trigger a change in the population with rapid measures after the new government took office. “There will be a work program for the first weeks of the government. The first topics we will tackle are the tightened border controls with rejections, but also measures for bureaucrator dismantling and the introduction of the active pension,” said the CDU boss in the newspapers of the Funke media group.…