The Chancellor presented this Friday in Berlin on the questions of the capital, correspondents from all over the world. And continuing a long Tradition, in some of the historical rates have been said.
Normally, the large hall in the building of the Federal press conference (BPK) in Berlin is visited only sparsely. Three times a week, the spokesman of the Chancellor and the Federal ministries and teach about the government actions in Germany. And often lost in the hall with 200 seats, only a dozen press people. But once in the year that is guaranteed to be different, because of the media man must come early to get even a seat.
No more seats free: press conference with the Chancellor on 29. August 2017
Because in the summer time just before your vacation, time shortly thereafter, comes Angela Merkel, a few hundred meters from the Chancellery across in the press house directly on the river Spree. And chat mostly loose over the past year, and about what is to come.
2015: “We can do it!”
Some of your sentences that you said in all the years, the halls long after. Best example: in 2015, on the 31. August spoke to Merkel about the challenges of refugee migration to Germany, and summed up with the words: “We can do this.” Very well possible that these three words are the big Headline, if your chancellorship, the balance sheet is drawn.
The summer press conference: A long Tradition
Helmut Kohl, CDU, Federal Chancellor from 1982 to 1998, the Tradition of the summer-with the capital-journalists justified. Amazing actually, but the ratio of cabbage to the press mostly extremely tense. Gerhard Schröder, Chancellor from 1998 to 2005, it continued, Merkel then also.
Skeptical view: Helmut Kohl in the Federal press conference in Bonn, in 1997
900 German capital correspondents Association, national press member, and 440 correspondents from around 60 countries, which are organized in the “Association of the foreign press in Germany” (VAP) is yet to come. Only these two groups have a right to ask questions at press conferences. Be directed to the events of one of the journalists. Unlike, for instance, in the White house in Washington, the politicians can’t pick and choose so whose question you answer. A piece of journalistic freedom, which the Federal press conference is right to be proud of.
A small trip by Merkel’s government time
A glance at the minutes of the press conferences, the Angela Merkel gave in the last few years, a small journey through her reign and is about to Be made, but also of trials and tribulations. 21. July 2010 about Merkel said: “We want as quickly as possible reach the age of renewable energy and an extension of the operating lives of the nuclear power stations!”
Since 1999 the seat of the Federal press conference in Berlin: the building at The Schiffbauerdamm at the Spree
Eight months later, after the nuclear disaster in Fukushima, Japan in March 2011, it was all history. Germany rose out of nuclear power. And probably not so much Merkel is in your set of 18. July 2014 remember: “We will continue to develop as the Central theme of the Digital Agenda for Germany.” Happened in the almost exactly five years since little.
For the first time in a topic: Merkel’s Shaking
In this year also the health of the first German Chancellor will probably be the first topic. Most recently, Merkel had suffered three times trembling attacks in Public, if you must stand for military honors of a state guest.
The famous staircase to the hall of the Federal press conference: The tips of the CDU, CSU and SPD, have just presented their coalition agreement, there, March, 2018.
Twice the Chancellor has in the last few weeks, therefore, easy chairs for yourself and your guest up. And followed the national anthems, so for the time being in a Sitting position. Will sit in the Federal press conference. But your quiver will be an issue, that much is clear.