Germany's Merz Pulls the Old Magoo Again, and It's a Whopper

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After the loss of around 100,000 industrial jobs, employee representatives of the largest East German industrial enterprises demand an energy transition moratorium. The government is not supposed to shut down power plants and stop "distributing subsidies to Gutsherrenart".

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What do the citizens say about the fact that the electricity tax will not be lowered? Before the Aldi near the chancellor's office there is above all political resignation.

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For private households, the electricity tax will not be lowered for the time being. This provides criticism from many sides. SPD and Merz-Union appease.

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All that Friedrich Merz does has real entertainment value, he is the last great entertainer of German politics. During the coalition negotiations, he agreed with the Union faction that the SPD will get everything it wants, because he had pity for the wounded, lying on the ground party. No longer the citizens, no longer his voters, no longer the Union were at the center of his thinking, but the SPD, which already threatened to burst apart from ar…

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The electricity tax in Germany will not be lowered for private consumers for the time being. Union and SPD could not agree on the coalition committee – there was no financial room for manoeuvre. Kristin Schwietzer classifys.