achtung_girl
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hahaa! naja kann man wohl nix machen...
Deregulation? Across-the-board tax cuts? I thought that sort of fiscal nonsense had been replaced by hopeychangy economics.Sept. 28 (Bloomberg) -- German Chancellor Angela Merkel said she’ll press ahead with tax cuts and labor-market deregulation after winning re-election with enough support to govern with the pro-business Free Democrats.
With Germany struggling to recover from the deepest economic slump since World War II, voters spurned plans by Merkel’s Social Democratic challenger to raise taxes on top earners. Frank-Walter Steinmeier’s SPD had its worst postwar result in what he called a “bitter day” after sharing power with Merkel for four years and governing for the previous seven.
During the campaign, she pledged to pursue deregulation, extend the life of nuclear-power plants and introduce across- the-board tax cuts of 15 billion euros ($22 billion).
I thought the FDP said they wanted the tax cuts and deregulation? The CDU and FDP still have to build compromises on topics like that. I don't recall Merkel saying such things for her party. Negotiations are there, yes. But I think a lot of those sources just read the opinions of the CDU and FDP as 'one government' already.
In Dutch media they spoke of the wishes of the FDP for the future on these topics, but not Merkel saying this.