Coalition negotiations: Rehlinger: thoroughness ahead of pace in coalition talks

Until Easter Friedrich Merz wants to be through government formation. An important SPD negotiator sees something else as crucial.

BERLIN. Friedrich Merz wants to be through the formation of government by Easter. An important SPD negotiator sees something else as crucial.Saarland's Prime Minister Anke Rehlinger presents thorough schedules in the coalition negotiations between the Union and the SPD. "We should be swift, but also thorough. It is not decisive whether the chancellor election takes place before or after Easter," said [...]

Yesterday, the new Bundestag met for a constituent meeting, at which Julia Klöckner was elected President of the Bundestag. Meanwhile, the coalition negotiations between the Union and SPD continue. All developments are in a live overview.

In the coalition negotiations, the Union calls for the abolition of the Freedom of Information Act. The negotiator on this topic is Philipp Amthor of all people. The said law made documents of Amthors Augustus-Intelligence scandal public. Philipp Amthor at the constituent session of the 21st German Bundestag. – All rights reserved IMAGO / Bernd ElmenthalerThe Union wants to abolish the Freedom of Information Act according to the public negotiati…

In the coalition negotiations, CDU and CSU are pushing for the abolition of the right to state information. Philipp Amthor is driving the project – who suffered from IFG requests himself because of his controversial side activities at Augustus Intelligence.

CDU and CSU want to abolish the Freedom of Information Act in its current form. The SPD is obviously against it. This is evident from the final paper of the working group "Reconstruction of the bureaucracy, state modernisation, modern justice", which is available to the editorial network Germany (RND). In the paragraph entitled "Strengthening representative democracy" it says: "We want to develop the Bundestag into a more modern legislative body…