Set a high pace: Finance Minister Christian Lindner (FDP), Economics Minister Robert Habeck (Greens) and Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD)
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The traffic light government makes laws at an adventurous pace. Everyone, right up to the President of the Bundestag, claims they want to change that. will that be
It’s a Friday in March when Economics Minister Robert Habeck is very meek. He is standing at the lectern in the plenary hall of the Bundestag. His SPD ministerial colleague Geywitz was ahead of him. The Green Habeck also immediately admits that it rarely happens that two ministers speak on the same item on the agenda. But Habeck wants to ask for forgiveness. “It could have been faster – we know that.” In other words, the traffic light should have agreed on a draft more quickly in order to give everyone else more time.
Eckhart Lohse
Head of the parliamentary editorial office in Berlin.
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It’s about a law with a cumbersome name, the Spatial Planning Act, into which the EU emergency regulation was integrated – again cumbersome. The Bundestag decided that, and the Bundesrat has to vote on the same day. The order is intended, but not the tempo. The members of the regional chamber have no time to take a closer look at the matter. It’s like having someone judge the quality of a very thick book after two hours of skimming.