Coalition agreement for the 19th parliamentary term of the Bundestag

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Signature of the coalition agreement for the 19th electoral term of the Bundestag on March 12, 2018 in the Paul-Löbe-Haus
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The then chairmen of the coalition parties present the signed coalition agreement for the 19th electoral term.

The coalition agreement of the 19th legislative period of the German Bundestag between the CDU , the CSU and the SPD , which was negotiated after the 2017 Bundestag election and concluded on February 7, 2018, is entitled "A new departure for Europe - a new dynamic for Germany - A new cohesion for our country ” .

On February 8, 2018, the CSU board of directors and the members of the CSU state group and the CSU parliamentary group in the Bavarian state parliament voted unanimously for the coalition agreement. The CDU approved the contract on February 26 at a party conference. In the SPD, the entire party base voted in a membership decision on the coalition agreement; the result of the decision was announced on March 4th. 66.02 percent of those who voted had voted for an alliance with the Union. The coalition agreement was particularly controversial within the SPD, but there were also more critics in the CDU than in the coalition agreement of 2013 , following strong concessions in the distribution of ministries .

history

In the previous federal election , the Union became the strongest parliamentary group with 246 seats (200 CDU, 46 CSU) in the now 709-seat Bundestag . A majority excluding the Union could only have been formed through coalitions that had excluded parties before the election. The then SPD chairman Martin Schulz announced on the evening of the election that the SPD would go into the opposition. The only coalition option that was not previously ruled out was a Jamaica coalition made up of the four parties CDU, CSU, FDP and Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen .

After four weeks of exploratory talks to form a Jamaica coalition , FDP chairman Christian Lindner declared the negotiations to have failed on November 19, 2017.

Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier then announced intensive talks with the party leaders and emphatically reminded the elected members of the Bundestag of their obligation to the common good and to form a government before he would make a proposal for the election of the Federal Chancellor under Article 63.1 of the Basic Law .

A Kenya coalition of CDU, CSU, SPD and Alliance 90 / The Greens was meanwhile talking, Angela Merkel and the leadership of the SPD preferred since November 2017, alternatively, a grand coalition (GroKo) with a renewed coalition agreement as in the previous legislative period as Königsweg, but not the Jusos and parts of the SPD base. Again and again, not only members had spoken out in favor of opposition instead of renewed participation in government.

On January 12, the Union and the SPD concluded their exploratory talks and presented a 28-page paper. On January 21, at a special party conference of the SPD in Bonn, 56.4 percent of the delegates voted in favor of entering into coalition negotiations with the Union parties. The supporters came mostly from the party leadership, among the opponents were the Juso chairman Kevin Kühnert and the member of the Bundestag Hilde Mattheis , chairwoman of the forum Democratic Left 21 . After the negotiations were concluded in early February, the outcome of the negotiations was decided, as in 2013, with an SPD member vote that is not legally binding for the members of the Bundestag .

On February 7, 2018, the Union and the SPD agreed on a coalition agreement. With a result of 66.02%, the SPD members voted for the coalition agreement. On March 12, 2018, the coalition agreement was solemnly signed in Berlin in the Paul Löbe House of the Bundestag by the three party leaders, the three parliamentary group leaders and the three general secretaries in front of the assembled parliamentary groups of these parties.

Core content

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job

  • With an additional one billion euros, 150,000 long-term unemployed are to be reintegrated into the labor market .
  • Unemployment insurance contributions are to be reduced by 0.3 percentage points.
  • For companies with more than 45 employees, a right to temporary part-time should be introduced.
  • In the public service, a quota is to be introduced for more equality between men and women. By 2025, all management positions should be filled equally with men and women.

education

  • The schools in Germany are to be strengthened with an investment offensive.
  • With a national education council, the educational opportunities are to be improved jointly by the federal and state governments.

Europe

  • The European Union should be financially strengthened so that it can carry out its tasks better. This should be ensured when drawing up the next multiannual financial framework.

family

  • The child benefit is to increase in two steps by 25 euros per month. (10 euros more from July 1, 2019 and 15 euros more from the beginning of 2021)

health

  • The statutory health insurance will be financed equally by employees and employers again.
  • The additional contributions to be paid by employees alone are to be abolished.

Agriculture

  • The use of the weed killer glyphosate in agriculture is to be drastically reduced. The aim is to completely end the use of glyphosate.

pension

  • In the pension is to level are fixed at 48 per cent until the 2025th
  • For insured persons with 35 years of contribution, there should be a basic pension 10% above the basic security, but only after a means test according to the basic security. (Section VII.1)

environment

Immigration

  • The immigration of refugees should not exceed 180,000 to 220,000 people per year.
  • The family reunification for refugees with limited protection status is to remain suspended until you find a new regulation, and are then limited to 1,000 people per month.
  • Asylum procedures are to be carried out in central reception, decision-making and return facilities.

Arms embargo over the Yemen War

The coalition parties speak out clearly against arms exports to warring parties in the Yemen war : " With immediate effect, we will not approve any exports to countries as long as they are directly involved in the Yemen war."

In September 2018, however, the federal government broke its own arms embargo and approved an extensive list of arms imports to the warring parties Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.

Others

SPD member vote

All 463,723 people who were registered as SPD members on February 6, 2018 at 6 p.m. (regardless of their age and nationality) were entitled to vote. Each SPD member received the voting documents by post by February 20, 2018. In accordance with Section 14 (3) of the SPD's organizational statute, it was possible to vote with “yes” or “no”. Only letters received by the SPD party headquarters by March 2nd were taken into account in the later count. Online voting has been set up for members abroad. The SPD announced in advance that it would regard the result as binding if at least 20 percent of the members participate. In the first three days, the votes of 20 percent of the members were received. It was criticized that at the regional conferences held by the party executive board and in a special edition of Vorwärts on the member survey, the arguments against a grand coalition and its representatives were given considerably less space. Together with the election documents, the members were sent a three-page letter of recommendation for approval of the grand coalition, in which the negotiating team campaigned for approval. The representatives of the opponents of a grand coalition were not given the opportunity to present their arguments to the members in this letter. As with the 2013 membership vote, there was a debate about the constitutionality of such a vote. The Federal Constitutional Court did not accept several constitutional complaints for decision.

Coalition committee

The following members belong to the coalition committee of this new grand coalition:

Assessment of the coalition's ability to work

A study by the Berlin Social Science Center published in August 2019 confirmed that the grand coalition is working at a high pace. In the first 15 months (March 2018 - June 2019) of the collaboration planned for the next federal election , it already implemented quantitatively more than 60 percent of a total of 296 clearly and verifiably formulated coalition promises from the coalition agreement, or had started implementation. In the opinion of the authors of the study, this contrasted with the poor reputation of the grand coalition among the population, the majority of which no longer believe that parties and governments keep their promises.

Inventory of the Federal Government for the mid-term review

In November 2019, the federal government issued an inventory or mid-term review. Chancellor Angela Merkel certified that the coalition was “fit for work and willing to work”, since two thirds of the approximately 300 planned measures have been or are in the process of being completed.

Reviews of the mid-term review

According to Albrecht von Lucke , the quality of the work varies , although “the coalition has achieved a lot on social issues, minimum wages and many other areas”, but it has “completely failed” in climate policy .

Despite the plans implemented by the grand coalition, the opposition party FDP criticizes the lack of initiatives in the education system, digitization and economic policy.

According to Wolfgang Schroeder , political researcher and SPD member, the cooperation of the grand coalition is burdened by questions of power within the party (e.g. election to the SPD chairmanship ) and the various ideas about the basic pension . However, he also confirmed that 60% of the planned projects had been implemented before half-time.

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Jan Eisel: Coalition agreement signed in the Bundestag. In: Website of the German Bundestag . Online services of the German Bundestag, March 12, 2018, accessed on November 12, 2019 .
  2. ^ Coalition agreement clears the first hurdle. In: Zeit Online. February 8, 2018, accessed November 19, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Sasan Abdi-Herrle, dpa among others: CDU party congress votes for coalition agreement with SPD. In: Zeit Online. February 26, 2018, accessed November 19, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Jakob Schulz: SPD members are mostly for the Groko. In: Tagesspiegel Online. Verlag der Tagesspiegel, March 4, 2018, accessed on November 13, 2019 .
  5. ↑ dpa / AFP: Sharp criticism of the SPD party links to Groko. In: FAZ.NET. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung GmbH, February 8, 2018, accessed on November 13, 2019 .
  6. ↑ The debate about Merkel's future continues. Dispute over ministers and departments. (No longer available online.) In: MDR website . Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk , February 11, 2018, archived from the original on March 13, 2018 ; accessed on November 13, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Anna-Lena Roth / dpa / Reuters / AFP: Liberals break off Jamaica negotiations. In: Spiegel Online. November 20, 2017, accessed November 13, 2019 .
  8. ^ Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier : Declaration on the formation of a government. In: Website of the Federal President . Office of the Federal President , November 20, 2017, accessed on November 22, 2017 .
  9. ↑ Schulz with the Jusos - "Let's fight for the way". In: tageschau.de. Norddeutscher Rundfunk, November 24, 2017, accessed on May 23, 2018 .
  10. ↑ Alex Krämer: Just not with the Union again. In: tagesschau.de. Norddeutscher Rundfunk, November 27, 2017, accessed on June 5, 2018 .
  11. ↑ Lenz Jacobsen, Zacharias Zacharakis: The SPD has ideas. In: Zeit Online. November 24, 2017, p. 1 , accessed November 13, 2019 .
  12. ↑ Results of the exploratory talks between the CDU, CSU and SPD [PDF]. (PDF) January 12, 2018, accessed January 12, 2018 .
  13. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s The GroKo probers have agreed on this. In: spiegel.de. January 12, 2018, accessed January 12, 2018 .
  14. ↑ SPD votes for coalition negotiations with the Union. In: Spiegel Online , January 21, 2017, accessed on the same day
  15. ^ SPD members vote for grand coalition. In: spiegel.de , March 4, 2018. Retrieved March 4, 2018
  16. ↑ AFP / dpa / tba / mr: 169 days after the election: GroKo tips sign coalition agreement. In: welt.de . March 12, 2018, accessed October 7, 2018 .
  17. ^ Coalition agreement between CDU, CSU and SPD dated February 7, 2018, section "For a restrictive arms export policy"
  18. ↑ Die Welt: German government approves arms exports to Yemen War Alliance , accessed on September 23, 2018.
  19. ^ Spiegel-online: German government approves arms exports to Yemen War Alliance , accessed on September 23, 2018.
  20. ↑ Nada Weigelt / dpa: "Planning of the" unit rocker "stalls again" Tagesspiegel from April 2, 2018
  21. ↑ a b Fabian Klask: This is how religion came into the coalition agreement. In: time online. March 15, 2018, accessed March 15, 2018 .
  22. ^ Das / dpa: Membership decision on Groko: SPD determines February 6th as the deadline. In: Rheinische Post . RP Digital GmbH, January 29, 2019, accessed December 7, 2019 .
  23. ↑ GroKo: 463,723 SPD members are allowed to vote on the coalition agreement , welt.de , February 7, 2018
  24. ^ Organizational statute : electoral regulations, arbitration regulations, financial regulations of the Social Democratic Party of Germany. (pdf) In: Website of the SPD . SPD party executive committee , December 9, 2017, p. 24 , accessed on November 16, 2019 : " Section 14, Paragraph 3: Uniform ballot papers are used that represent the subject of the vote in such a way that an answer with" Yes "or" No " is possible."
  25. ↑ dpa -Meldung: SPD membership vote from 20 February to March 2nd. In: sueddeutsche.de. February 7, 2018, accessed February 7, 2018 .
  26. ↑ Member survey: 24,339 new members in the SPD , zeit.de , February 6, 2018
  27. ↑ SPD vote on GroKo is already binding , on n-tv.de, accessed on February 23, 2018
  28. ↑ forward edition January / February 2018 . In: forward . February 15, 2018 ( online [accessed February 19, 2018]).
  29. ^ Regional conferences of the SPD: "A promotional event of the party executive". Welt Online, February 18, 2018, accessed February 19, 2018 .
  30. ↑ Marco Bülow: Membership letter from the party chairman of the SPD dated February 8, 2018, p. February 8, 2018, accessed on February 19, 2018 .
  31. ↑ Hasso Suliak: Constitutional Court reviewed SPD member survey. In: Legal Tribune Online . Wolters Kluwer Germany , February 6, 2018, accessed November 13, 2019 .
  32. ↑ Alexander Preker / dpa : Constitutional Court rejects complaints against the SPD vote. In: Spiegel Online. February 7, 2018, accessed November 19, 2019 .
  33. ↑ Jonas Schaible: Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer - a woman pulls through. t-online.de, July 17, 2019, accessed on July 17, 2019 .
  34. ↑ a b Interim solution sought: Nahles is going - who is coming? In: tagesschau.de. Norddeutscher Rundfunk, June 3, 2019, accessed on June 17, 2019 .
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  39. ↑ dpa , AFP , Angelika Finkenwirth, vk: Manuela Schwesig resigns SPD chairmanship. In: Zeit Online. September 10, 2019, accessed on November 15, 2019 : "Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania's Prime Minister waives the provisional leadership of the SPD due to a cancer diagnosis."
  40. ↑ Denis Huber / dpa / afp : Green parliamentary group in the Bundestag confirms Göring-Eckardt and Hofreiter as dual leadership. In: GMX .de. 1 & 1 Mail & Media GmbH, September 24, 2019, accessed on September 24, 2019 .
  41. ↑ A promise - kept: According to the study, GroKo is better than its reputation. Bayerischer Rundfunk, August 19, 2019, accessed on September 6, 2019 .
  42. ↑ Better than its reputation: Researchers attest Groko record speed. In: Der Tagesspiegel. August 19, 2019, accessed September 6, 2019 .
  43. ↑ a b Christian Teevs: GroKo-mid-term, "the CDU and SPD have strong leadership problems." In: Spiegel Online. November 6, 2019, accessed November 6, 2019 .
  44. ↑ Robert Vehrkamp, ​​Theres Matthieß: Better than their reputation: Mid-term review of the grand coalition for the implementation of the 2018 coalition agreement. (PDF) Bertelsmann Stiftung, June 30, 2019, accessed on September 6, 2019 .
  45. ↑ Much achieved - much remains to be done. In: website of the federal government . Press and Information Office of the Federal Government, November 5, 2019, accessed on November 6, 2019 .
  46. ↑ Mid- term review: Merkel calls coalition "able to work and willing to work". In: Spiegel Online. November 6, 2019, accessed November 6, 2019 .
  47. ↑ a b Uli Hauck: Why successes are not noticed. In: tagesschau.de. Norddeutscher Rundfunk, November 6, 2019, accessed on November 6, 2019 .
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