Chancellor Merkel is to the choice of Hamburg as the venue of the G20 summit. On counterparty Schulz you respond in an Interview, left and combative: you have the firm intention to four more years in office.
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Chancellor: Hamburg, Germany – the right choice
In view of the riots on the sidelines of the G20 summit, politicians are arguing Inside of the Union and the SPD on dealing with potential perpetrators of violence, and whether the G20 is the venue in Hamburg is the right choice. German Chancellor Angela Merkel defended the choice of the Hanseatic city as the venue for the summit. This is, of course, have been their decision, said the CDU Chairman in the ARD summer interview. With a view to the massive riots and destruction in Hamburg, she said: “I have the same responsibility as (mayor) of Hamburg, Olaf Scholz, and don’t Express myself well in front of it.”
Merkel backs of Hamburg mayor Scholz
The summit should, however, be correct, and have been a success. The CDU leader has distanced himself from calls for his resignation, the Hamburg CDU to the SPD politician Scholz: “I spoke with Hamburg’s CDU, told her very clearly that I think that this is wrong.” The whole of the CDU Presidium had this view. You and the Federal government had been host, Scholz have agreed to the summit, ready. It would be””, to be afterwards divided. “But as I said: ‘people’s party, diversity’ – the Opposition said she had to see it differently,” she said to the resignation demands of the Hamburg CDU to Scholz.
Chaos, riots, looting: Was the venue for Hamburg as a centre of on the left of-Autonomous the right of the G20?
Cancellation of upper limit for refugees
A cancellation gave Merkel a second Time claims arising out of the CSU to an upper limit for refugees, after CSU Chairman Horst Seehofer during the 2015 early refugees had attacked the crisis for months, the Chancellor sharply. “The ceiling for my position is clear: That is to say, I will not accept,” she said. With a reduction in the numbers of Refugees, with control and with the fight against the causes of Flight may be an influx of achieved also without such a limit for the Refugee.
In the past, Seehofer had threatened a coalition agreement without an upper limit, not write. For the common electoral program of the Union of CDU and CSU had a fight last. The upper limit wants to write to the CSU is now in your supplementary private choice program, the so-called “Bavaria project”. Merkel said that the CDU and CSU are two different parties. “Therefore, there has been in each government program, always a Bavarian Plan, in the some points from those of the CDU differ. This is one of them.”
In the Interview, knocked Merkel on the German visitation rights in the Turkish NATO base in Konya. It was clear, “that the members of the Bundestag have a right to visit our soldiers”. In addition, the Chancellor took a cautious approach to demands for a withdrawal of the Bundeswehr from Konya. “We should wait and see the conversations” that would need to be conducted in the framework of the NATO with Turkey. Merkel has also suggested a possible trade-off between the right of visit and the NATO solidarity.
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Merkel responded on the “future plan” of the SPD-Challenger Martin Schulz. Compared to the ARD, she thought with a sharp criticism of the previously provided Ten-point Plan of the SPD candidate for Chancellor back and stood in the principle behind the plea for more investment. Angela Merkel pointed out that the Union is part of a different focus. So the missing money was not about the desired Expansion in government investment is the main problem, but is slow planning.
In the medium-term financial planning of the Federal government, additional investment funds are already written in many Places, Merkel said and stressed at the same time. “We can not at present spend the money we have.” Therefore, the Union put in its government program to accelerate the planning process and to reduce priority projects, the number of instances where complaints could be. Of the revenues of the state for at least one-third should be invested.
Schulz’s Ten-Point Plan
The SPD wants to introduce in the case of a government investment acquisition obligation of the state. Schulz in Berlin at the presentation of his Plan with an attack on Merkel in the European policy of the Offensive. The SPD leader, called for, among other things, more refugee solidarity in Europe, more investment, and more justice. The paper summarizes Essentially the choice program.
“To compete for four years”
Chancellor Merkel reiterated that she wanted to rule in the case of an election victory in September and a further four years. “I have the firm intention to do the same, as I have said to the people,” she said, with a view to earlier Statements, after which they compete for four years. However, the more applicable, of course, that we “have all of our lives just due to the power of disposal”.
pab/qu (afp, dpa)