CDU, CSU and SPD continue their consultations about a new black and red coalition. In the morning-as the previous day-top negotiators came together in the SPD headquarters in Berlin. Again it should be about the focus. The deputy CDU chairman and Schleswig-Holstein Minister of Education Karin Prien was optimistic when it came: “We come to good solutions,” she said.CSU state group leader Alexander Dobrindt said when asked whether the round until Easter was negotiated that it was “a whole lot of work that is pending. But we have an ambitious schedule”. He was “in good spirits that we can quickly progress”. The consultations went very well, there was a lot of understanding for the common situation. Take a look at the areas of financing and expenses, said Dobrindt. One thing is “to ensure that you have funds for investments in the infrastructure. The other is also to look at the fact that the usage side works correctly, that money will be spent in a targeted manner”. On the agenda, the issue of consolidation and savings. It is a central element for an agreement “that also substantial savings in the household are possible”. To report that up to 500 billion euros could be missing in the budget in the coming years, the CSU politician only said: “Everyone now calculates what they want to calculate. But we bow to the real numbers.”
