The German response to the plans of the President of Macron was for some a surprise. This is due to the fact that this is already the possible successor to Angela Merkel feels as the Chancellor responsible.
The possible successor to Angela Merkel as German Chancellor, Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, doing what is expected, some observers of The since December President of the new party Chairman sends signals to the that of your party last a little neglected, more conservative clientele of Voters.
On ash Wednesday, she made a joke about inter-sexual and not want to excuse, in spite of all the criticism. The next move for the ACC, as the Chairman of the Christian Democrats (CDU), is also called, was not long in coming. On the weekend, she answers in the tone of a dramatic initiative by the French President, Emmanuel Macron, with their own EU-paper. In it, she strikes an explicitly factual, anti-populist tone. It’s not a matter of “‘for’ or ‘against’ Europe” – the question did not arise for the majority of citizens. Instead, it had to be a fight about “how the EU can, in future, be to the big questions capable of action”. The citizens of the missing clarity and orientation.
AKK is sending strategic signals
Macrons plans, new EU authorities, and to centralize, AKK a stop sign. Europe has to rely on “subsidiarity and the responsibility of the national States”, but at the same time “in the common interest to act”. You spoke out against “European centralism and statism”, against the “mutualisation of debt, or a Europeanisation of social systems” and also against “a common minimum wage”.
Alexander Mitsch founded in March 2017, the “Union of values” as a party of internal accrual to the policy of Angela Merkel
Conspicuous in a timely manner Union, a merger of the right of the CDU-wing, an interesting call came from the values. It would be Best if Merkel would soon cede the chancellorship to AKK passed, said Chairman Alexander Mitsch. The values-Union, understood as an Anti-Merkel-wing of the CDU. The partisanship for the ACC, however, a surprising and shows a rapprochement.
New allies in the CDU
The whole of the CDU is preparing for the post-Merkel Era and sorted.
A “victim” of Merkel and Norbert Röttgen, the – what happened in Germany was very rare – Merkel in the year 2012 as the Federal Minister was dismissed. Now a Revival may be present. In any case, he reacts to a Macron in the same tone of voice as AKK. This will deliver a “hodgepodge of Headings”, and wool of the EU, is “for almost all of the areas of responsibility”. “We don’t need new agencies, institutions and councils,” says Röttgen.
Criticism of AKK came mainly from the Green party, a possible coalition partner for the CDU – should burst, the current Grand coalition with the CSU and the SPD in advance. AKK “missed a Chance”, criticized the Green-Chairman in the Bundestag, Anton Hofreiter. To fill “instead of the EU with new life, blocked you.” AKK lacked “courage and will”.
Comprehensive the critique of the Green-heads, Robert Habeck,: AKK have abandoned “basically, the idea of a European democracy”. Instead, she wanted to parallel the “axis of nation-States” and back the case thus, behind the idea of a progressive European integration.
Ralph Brinkhaus has to design the parliamentary group, the Transition to the CDU after Merkel
Ralph Brinkhaus, the Chairman of the parliamentary group of the CDU and the CSU in the Bundestag, defended the ACC against the criticism of the Green in a TV Interview. More than AKK he criticized Macrons tone of voice: It’s not going to make it in “big words” proposals, but “concrete things”. “The implement is not always small diamonds, altitude ten thousand meters.” Germany Macron “emergence,” let that be a “mistake”. It was happening a lot and that there was “quite a lot of things we share”.
The CDU and CSU sister parties to approach again
From the Bavarian sister party, the CSU, the CDU had last summer is still fierce because of the refugee policy argument, came approving words. The CSU land group in the Bundestag, Alexander Dobrindt, said that AKK have the right to do so, a common social policy to reject in the EU.
In General, the orientation of AKK is likely to meet in the CSU on a good response. Finally, it sets in European policy, a focus on strong migration and security policy, what is required by the CSU for a long time.
On Monday, the begun, went on again approaching also. After the expulsion of German journalists from Turkey, the top candidate for the European elections had stressed, Manfred Weber,, here, show, once again, that “the Turkey fits in the EU”. AKK agreed with and questioned immediately the sense of a further approximation policy.
Strategic signals in the direction of the AfD
With the advances of Macron and AKK, which started the election campaign for the EU elections in may is being overshadowed in Germany by the election campaign in the three East German Federal States. In the autumn, the CDU threaten to there loss of Power in favour of the “Alternative for Germany” (AfD).
The right-wing populists to in its election Manifesto for the EU election a clear course against centralisation and a strengthening of nation-States. All elites overwritten with biting criticism of the EU. So, the AfD is trying to occupy after the refugee crisis a new topic.
AKK wants to but the theme, apparently, not take away. The AfD sees their skins swim away. AKKs “rejection of EU-centralism was “implausible,” wrote the AfD group Chairman in the Bundestag, Alice ryegrass. The Aachen-based contract, describe another way. AKK would be serious, would you approach the exit from the Euro.
SPD: rejection of the AKK as a Chancellor
From the other coalition partner, the social Democrats, came words of warning. The SPD’s top candidate for the European election, German Federal Minister of justice Katarina Barley, finds it “inappropriate” that is not German Chancellor Merkel reacts to the thrust of Macrons, but AKK. The content of the Federal replied the foreign Minister, Heiko Maas: The European minimum wage as a goal there should be no departure.
Overall, the SPD does not seem to be so completely satisfied. The ACC should move in before the end of the legislative period 2021 to the Chancellery, would be the coalition at an early stage, in the end, threatened to SPD politicians at the weekend.