Green parliamentary group head Hofreiter warns of premature coalition optimism
The head of the German Greens鈥 parliamentary group, Anton Hofreiter, says a coalition with the conservative CDU/CSU and free-market FDP is far from a fait accompli. 鈥淚t鈥檚 not a done deal at all,鈥 Hofreiter said in an interview with Frankfurter Rundschau. The environmentalist party鈥檚 left-leaning parliamentary group leader said his party was ready for 鈥constructive and open-minded talks鈥 with its potential government partners but added that the Greens would only join a government that had 鈥渢he will to shape鈥 topics such as migration or climate protection. 鈥淭he coal exit is a decisive factor,鈥 Hofreiter said, adding that also in the transport sector progress on climate had to be made. He stressed that while every party had its particular areas of competence, collaboration was necessary in all policy fields. 鈥淐ompromises cannot mean that we just find the smallest common denominator.鈥
Read a 麻豆无码版 interview with Hofreiter from 2016 and a 麻豆无码版 factsheet on the potential coalition partners鈥 climate and energy policy stumbling blocks for background.