Wednesday November 10, 2021
“There is no commitment”
Greens deny the waiver of the Ministry of Finance
The tug-of-war over the finance ministry has not yet been decided in the coalition negotiations. The Greens reject a media report that they would no longer make claims on the department.
The Greens have denied a report that they no longer lay claim to the Federal Ministry of Finance. “That is wrong. There is no waiver of any ministry and no definition of who will do what,” said a spokeswoman on Wednesday evening when asked. The “Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung” had previously reported that the group of ten green negotiators had defined six ministries on Tuesday evening that the Greens wanted to claim.
The report speaks of the Federal Foreign Office and the transport, agriculture, environment, family and transformation departments. The Federal Ministry of Finance and the Federal Ministry of the Interior are not mentioned. The negotiations with the SPD and FDP about the allocation of departments are still pending. In the past few days, representatives of all three traffic light parties had repeatedly emphasized that ministries would only be discussed at the end of the coalition negotiations.
Both the FDP and the Greens, however, had made public claims to the Ministry of Finance, which has so far played a coordinating role in important European policy issues. Both Greens co-leader Robert Habeck and FDP leader Christian Linder had been traded as potential finance ministers. In the FAZ article, green negotiating circles are named as sources, which speak of a “conceivable scenario”. The Ministry of Finance would not let the formation of the traffic light fail. Presumably, the Greens would pay for the waiver with concessions on other issues such as the climate, it said.