Germania, pol. interna, governo, Cdu-Spd Die Welt 05-10-11
La Merkel vince la battaglia per la cancelleria; la Spd conquista 8 ministeri
Nel vertice di sabato tra Merkel, Schröder, Müntefering e Stoiber decisa l’assegnazione della cancelleria tedesca ad Angela Dorothea Kasner Merkel.
[51 anni, nata ad Amburgo, protestante, senza figli divorziata da
Ulrich Merkel di cui mantiene il cognome, risposata con il chimico
Joachim Sauer]
In cambio la Spd ottiene 8 ministeri:
Esteri: Lavoro, Affari sociali, Finanze, Sviluppo, Ambiente, Trasporti e Giustizia.
All’Unione:
Difesa, Interni, Economia, Agricoltura, Famiglia, Educazione + i 2
ministri della cancelleria, per un totale di 8 incarichi, alla pari con
la Spd.
- Stoiber, capo Csu bavarese, dovrebbe avere l’Economia, ed essere incaricato per il mercato interno europeo e le nuove tecnologie.
- Il settore Lavoro dovrebbe essere nuovamente separato dal ministero dell’Economia ed assegnato alla Spd.
- Il ministero delle Finanze dovrebbe andare all’ex presidente di Nord-Reno-Wesfalia, Peer Steinbrück;
- quello del Lavoro a Sigmar Gabriel;
- quello dell’Ambiente al vice capo-gruppo Spd Michael Müller e al capo Spd della Saar Heiko Maas.
- Sembra rimangano nel gabinetto Ulla Schmidt, Salute,
- Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul, Sviluppo,
- Brigitte Zypries, Giustizia.
presidenza Spd hanno votato contro l’accordo Clement e il ministro per
la Famiglia Renate Schmidt; su 40 membri se ne sono asstenuti 7, tra
cui Andrea Nahles dell’ala sinistra.
Critiche dal capo Fdp Westerwelle: la Germania ha perso buona parte delle speranze per il futuro.
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NYT 05-10-11
- La Merkel prima donna e primo tedesco orientale a guidare il paese riunificato;
-
non è ascesa alla Cancelleria per chiaro mandato popolare, ma in
seguito ad lunghe trattative con i socialdemocratici; - i tedeschi orientali sono stati delusi dalla scarsa attenzione ai loro problemi;
- non è facile che sia una nuova Margaret Thatcher, deve condividere il potere con la Spd;
-
forse appoggerà più di Schröder la politica di Bush, come ha fatto per
la guerra irachena, tuttavia la sua posizione di politica estera più
rilevante è l’opposizione all’entrata della Turchia nella Ue. - personalità fredda, poco incline a raccogliere consensi popolari;
-
da rimarcare la freddezza della sua decisione di rompere con il suo
mentore Kohl in seguito agli scandalo finanziario che lo coinvolse: «
Nella lotta contro i propri avversari politici il partito deve contare
su se stesso senza i suoi vecchi cavalli di battaglia».
Ciò ha dimostrato che ha la forza di simili inattese decisioni per il futuro.
Die Welt 05-10-11
Merkel gewinnt Kampf ums Kanzleramt SPD bekommt acht Ministerposten
Schröder will nicht Vizekanzler werden – Stoiber wird Wirtschaftsminister
Berlin – Drei Wochen nach der Bundestagswahl ist der Machtkampf zwischen Union und SPD entschieden: CDU-Chefin
Angela Merkel soll Bundeskanzlerin in einer großen Koalition werden,
die SPD soll dafür mehr Minister stellen. Darauf verständigten sich die
Spitzen von Union und SPD. Die Parteipräsidien billigten den Kompromiß
mit großer Mehrheit.
Ungeklärt blieb im SPD-Parteivorstand, wer Vizekanzler
wird. "Meine Lebensplanung ist eine andere", sagte Bundeskanzler
Gerhard Schröder. Präsidium und Vorstand sollen diese Woche in weiteren
Sitzungen klären, wer die Vizekanzlerschaft übernimmt.
Die
Entscheidung über die Personalfragen war bereits am Sonntag abend von
Merkel, Schröder, CSU-Chef Edmund Stoiber und SPD-Chef Franz
Müntefering vorbereitet worden. Die SPD soll acht Ressorts erhalten:
Auswärtiges, Arbeit, Soziales, Finanzen, Entwicklung, Umwelt, Verkehr
und Justiz. Für die Union bleiben Verteidigung, Inneres, Wirtschaft,
Landwirtschaft, Familie und Bildung. Zudem
soll die Union den Kanzleramtsminister stellen. Damit wäre im Kabinett
eine Stimmengleichheit von acht zu acht zwischen Union und SPD
hergestellt. Wirtschaftsminister soll Stoiber werden.
Er soll auch für den europäischen Binnenmarkt sowie für neue
Technologien zuständig sein. Der Bereich Arbeit soll wieder aus dem Ministerium ausgliedert werden und von der SPD betreut werden.
Der bisherige Wirtschaftsminister Wolfgang Clement wird aus dem Kabinett ausscheiden. "Ich mache von meinem Freiheitsrecht ausgiebig Gebrauch", erklärte er. Im Parteivorstand stimmte er wie Familienministerin Renate Schmidt gegen die Vereinbarung mit der Union zur Aufnahme von Koalitionsverhandlungen. Von den 40 Anwesenden enthielten sich sieben Vorstandsmitglieder, darunter die SPD-Linke Andrea Nahles.
Als neuer
Finanzminister wurde der frühere nordrhein-westfälische
Ministerpräsident Peer Steinbrück gehandelt, als Arbeitsminister Sigmar
Gabriel, als Umweltminister SPD-Fraktionsvize Michael Müller und
Saarlands SPD-Chef Heiko Maas. Den Spekulationen zufolge sollen Ulla
Schmidt (Gesundheit), Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul (Entwicklung) und
Brigitte Zypries (Justiz) im Kabinett bleiben.
FDP-Chef
Guido Westerwelle hat die Vereinbarungen zwischen Union und SPD zur
Aufnahme von Koalitionsverhandlungen in scharfer Form kritisiert.
"Unterm Strich kann man sagen, Deutschland hat an diesem Tag ein gutes
Stück an Zukunftschancen verloren", sagte Westerwelle. In den Zeiten
von Massenarbeitslosigkeit sei ein "echter Politikwechsel" nötig
gewesen. Statt dessen sei die Union schon vor der Aufnahme von
Koalitionsverhandlungen sozusagen als "Eintrittspreis" von wichtigen
Vorhaben abgerückt. "Das hat Deutschland nicht verdient", sagte
Westerwelle. DW
Artikel erschienen am Di, 11. Oktober 2005 © WELT.de 1995 – 2005
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Nyt 05-10-11
Woman in the News – Angela Merkel: Politician Who Can Show a Flash of Steel
By MARK LANDLER
Oct. 10 – On Nov. 9, 1989, the day the Berlin Wall fell, Angela Merkel
made her weekly visit to a sauna. Hours later, she caught up with
thousands of East Germans, who were streaming jubilantly into the West.
It was not the last time her rendezvous with German history was delayed.
Monday, three weeks after a deadlocked election that she had once been
expected to win handily, Mrs. Merkel finally emerged as the designated
leader of Germany’s next government.
To
get the job, she had to make major concessions to the departing
chancellor, Gerhard Schröder, and his party. And her ascension must
still be ratified in a vote in Parliament, to be held next month.
Merkel’s journey from Protestant minister’s daughter in East Germany to
the pinnacle of German politics – as the boss of a male-dominated,
Catholic-leaning conservative party – is so improbable that it has left
political analysts here grasping for what she might do as chancellor.
"But her career has also been marked by chance and good fortune. It’s
very difficult to predict what kind of role she will play."
which have drifted apart in recent years, as the financial burden of
reunification and a stagnant eastern economy has bred mutual resentment.
her political odyssey, much remains of the regimented young woman who
kept her date at the sauna that day. Dogged, earnest, almost willfully
bland, Mrs. Merkel is an unlikely historic figure.
has a cool personality," said Gerd Langguth, who has written a
biography of Mrs. Merkel. "She does not easily express her emotions.
That may explain why people have difficulty identifying with her."
her politics defy easy categorization. Mrs. Merkel’s firsthand
experience of Communism has left her with a fervent conviction about
the power of free markets, according to analysts. But she is unlikely to become a German Margaret Thatcher – Maggie Merkel, as some here hopefully put it – especially now that she must share power with the Social Democrats.
recently, when she spruced up her wardrobe and began wearing her hair
in a stylish layered cut, Mrs. Merkel looked as if she would still be
at home in the drab confines of East Germany. While campaigning, she
projected a stern image, offering few glimpses of her personal side.
He steers clear of her political career. She is said to like cooking
for friends, and has a soft spot for the actor Dustin Hoffman.
In part, that has to do with her stubborn refusal to turn herself into
a symbol – either of East Germany and its reunification with the West,
or of women and their changing role in German society.
is a stranger to most Germans," Mr. Langguth said, explaining why she
faded in the election. "Many East Germans think of her as a West
German, while West Germans think she is an East German."
up in an intellectual household, Angela excelled in school and hoped to
become a teacher and translator. But because of her father’s pastoral
work, she found those careers closed to her. So in 1973, she opted to study physics at Leipzig University.
an 8-year-old, Angela could rattle off the names of the ministers in
the West German government. Yet as a young adult, she showed little
interest in politics. Instead, she worked toward a Ph.D. in physics and
married a fellow student, Ulrich Merkel; they divorced in 1982.
"It was clear they were going to need people," she said in a typically
circumspect interview in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.
and Mrs. Merkel found her party. Mr. Langguth suggested that she was
reacting in part to her father, with whom she has had a fraught
relationship.
famously referred to Mrs. Merkel as "the girl," but rewarded her with a
series of powerful posts. She proved herself to be a skillful political
player, unafraid to eviscerate rivals. In 1999, after Mr. Kohl had been implicated in a financial scandal, Mrs. Merkel cut loose her old mentor.
"The party must learn to walk," she said at the time. "It must trust itself to fight its political opponents without its old battle horses."
was a brazen act of rebellion. But within months, Mrs. Merkel was
elected party leader. "The episode symbolized that she is capable of
making unexpected decisions in difficult situations," Mr. Langguth said.