Ruling German government coalition collapses after chancellor Scholz fires finance minister

Germany’s ruling coalition collapsed after the chancellor, Olaf Scholz, sacked his finance minister and paved the way for a snap election – triggering political chaos in Europe’s largest economy just hours after Donald Trump won the US presidential election.
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Christian Lindner, the sacked minister, said: ‘The chancellor gave me an ultimatum to suspend the constitutional debt brake. I couldn’t do that because I would have been breaking my oath of office.’

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42 COMMENTS

  1. Lindner wollte nicht die Renten kürzen sondern das Renten Niveau zum jahr 2040 senken
    Ist ein kleiner unterschied .
    Unser Land wird kaputt gespart
    Für kriege und Ideologien die keiner nachvollziehen kann . Schaut euch nur unsere Strompreise an

  2. This braindead commets here are pure gold😂 The SPD and Grüne have squandered money all over the world, destroyed the German economy through regulations and expensive energy costs, and the finance minister, who is the only one who remains halfway reasonable and slows down the other two, is the evil😂🤣

  3. Is Olaf Scholz just spineless, or Putin's henchman? What other explanations are there for his Ukraine policy? If Ukraine loses against Russia, then Germany will suffer too, why can't this blockhead understand it?

  4. Ist schon klar das die Grünen nicht nur Grundgesetze missachten sondern auch die Schulden erhöhen wollen um ihre eigene Unfähigkeit der friedfertigen Diplomatie sowie
    Ruinös orientierte Wirtschaft
    als gekonnte Grüne Politik zu verkaufen. STOPP. Zum Schutz Deutschlands. Nicht Krieg bringt Erfolg, sondern FRIEDEN.

  5. Olaf Scholz and Annalina Barebock have literally betrayed Germany for the CIA

    OMG

    Who leaked that document ?!

    And why

    A non-conservative fiscal policy in Germany would break and already broken country

    And make it war fodder for an unnecessary war in Ukraine and a wider war in Europe with Russia

    The US is liquifying Europe to grind down Russia

    Frankly
    This solves two problems for the US
    Russia and the EU

    Omg what a dirty game of politics

    What a dirty game

    Hope Trump will stop all of that

  6. I hit $113k today. Thank you for all the knowledge and nuggets you had thrown my way over the last months. Started last month 2024. Financial education is indeed required for more than 70% of the society in the country as very few are literate on the subject.

  7. If you don't know anything about German politics – here is the just of it: The coalition consisted of 3 parties which had very different political ideas. The labour party and the "free-liberals" (they are very liberal in terms of the free market) didn't fit together at all. Lindner, is the leader of the free-liberals and wanted the coalition to end so he was blocking progress internally for some time and forced his departure. Now the coalition works only with 2 parties and can govern, but has no majority which is why there will be new elections beginning of next year.

  8. The reason is that Lindner wanted to cut aid to Ukraine to balance the budget, Scholz could not accept that, he would face US wrath. The US wants to hand over its failed project Ukraine to Germany and Europe.

    Ukraine has brought Germany's downfall. It brought the downfall of the Democrats in the US.

    Russia has outlasted the west and NATO. It has sown divisions in the US, EU and in NATO.

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