Just before your summer holiday, German Chancellor Angela Merkel poses questions about capital press. You took a clear position against trump’s Twitter attacks. But it is also about their possible withdrawal from the policy.
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Merkel takes stock of government’s work
“The Chancellor is today very punctual,” says the conference Director, as Angela Merkel takes up next to her. 90 minutes the members of the Federal press conference to ask the Chancellor of the questions before it travels into your summer vacation. As always, the excitement is great, been at it for hours before camera crews stood in front of the press room in a queue. The sometimes sparse room, as always, is at this date crowded.
Without a few laughs to loosen up, it is not at this appointment, the the German Chancellor as a political professional knows exactly. After all, she was here often enough to be a guest. And so she responds in his usual relaxed stance on the issues – almost in a conversational tone. However, the Federal press conference is also the place where you said some now as historically the rate in force. About as you manage the challenges of the refugee crisis in Germany in 2015 with a encouragingly referred to “We”, commented.
Merkel on #Friday forfuture: “It’s about your life”
This year, the climate is dominated protection. Once due to the accelerated phase-out of nuclear energy as “climate Chancellor”, it is Merkel, in the meantime, due to a lack of commitment to environmental protection in the criticism. During the press conference to demonstrate how for months the young students of the “Fridays for Future”movement – just a few hundred meters from the Chancellor removed.
Environment protection activist Greta Thunberg in a speech during Merkel’s appearance in the Federal press conference
“The students can say very well that we are working with high pressure,” declared the Chancellor in the press conference. Resolutions for the proposal of a CO2 pricing should fall in September and a bill will be bundled. The Engagement of young climate activists like Greta Thunberg contributed. You would have noted that it comes to your life.
Future questions will dominate: For Merkel and Germany
The young people she would leave behind, therefore, a healthy Federal budget. So the answer to the question of why the Federal government is holding on to the “Black Zero”, a fiscal policy without new borrowing, noted: “in Germany We have an average age of 45 years of life. Thus, we belong to the oldest countries of the world,” she explains the Return of the financial resources for later necessary investments.
Germany’s role in the world and is the second most important issue. Of course, you will be asked for their assessment of the Brexit. Basically, it was open to a term extension of the EU-exit negotiations with the United Kingdom. But: “The British decisions, because I’m” limits of Merkel. “I trust that great Britain will find its way.”
A much clearer Position, it applies with regard to the racist attacks of the US President, Trump versus the US politicians with a migration background. This condemns them significantly: “I dissociate myself of them decided, and feel solidarity with the three attacked women,” says Merkel decided.
Search and rescue and reunification of humanity
In the debate on the private German Maritime search and rescue as the captain of the SeaWatch3, Carola Missiles, threatens in Italy, a conviction, she wants to advocate for a decision-in-principle: “It is not a question that we can find ad hoc in the case of every ship in a single solution. Search and rescue is not only an obligation, but a commandment of humanity.”
In a good mood: for 90 minutes, the Chancellor answered questions – then it’s time for the holidays
Be human and open, so the Chancellor is shown about one and a half hours. Once you can be carried to a longer answer, when it comes to errors in the re-Association process. “You can ask what you need to do now?” you replied.
Then she talks about resulting mental injury could still be cured by the intra-German exchange. As she talks about her life in the former GDR, on exchanges and the Hamsters by the tomato paste, slipping repeatedly from the impersonal “you” to “we”.
Soon holiday: Merkel is looking forward to a time without a vacation
Since you said in the autumn of last year, her resignation as CDU party Chairman and some of the trembling attacks in the Public for international shock caused lines, will have an open discussion about their possible withdrawal from the policy. Like it, want to know a journalist, therefore, hardly surprising. “Well,” answers first, almost.
There is, however, a lot of films and Portraits that run during their current term in office already as recaps on German television, according to hooks, the journalist. Merkel continues to left and countered easily amused, you have no time: “I’m judged on whether I fulfill my duties on a daily basis and since there are to do enough.”
Last year, they had cancelled their summer holiday. To not want their plans, they say, is happy, but a time without dates. For the time being, she adds a sentence that will Stop a bit after, but rather as a choice sounds like a promise: “I am always in service. If anything, I am reachable.”