A new big coalition for Germany and Europe

NEW YORK ) Friends of Germany and Europe side-by-side the world have freely breathed from relief for the will Social Democrats have. [ Footnote] The SPD] and Merkel's Christian Democrats to negotiate the repetition of a major government coalition. The world lost a strong Germany looking forward to a more dynamic EU. A grand coalition working with the government of French President Emmanuel Macron would be a good thing.

The SPD's initial decision to remain in opposition after the disappointing electoral results in September may have been genuine, as it was. But it's not time for that. Diplomacy is almost everywhere divided.

The United States has a psychologically unstable president, with a pluralical cabinet [power of the rich], and a republican majority at the congress. Europe is in the agony of a series of economic, political, social and institutional crises. China, on the contrary, is dynamic and is becoming even more present in the global sphere, offering good reasons why the EU needs a energetic leadership engaged in constructive partnership with China for key initiatives [executive, construction of a sustainable infrastructure along Eurasia].

In brief, this is a critical time for Germany and Europe to offer vision, stability and global leadership. And that necessity lasts to Chancellor Angela Merkel and her party [ CDU], to her bavarese sister's party [ CSU] and the Social Democratic Party [ SPD.

But, CDU/ CSU and SPD must do more than prolong past rulership, which was very narrow in outlook and temperament. The world and Europe lost to an external-looking Germany, which offers greater institutional and financial innovation so that Europe is a real and important counterpart to the US and China on global issues. I say that as someone who believes in Europe's commitment to ensuring sustainable development, a key requirement for our time.

Economic growth, which is socially and environmentally sustainable, is an European idea, which was embraced globally in the UN's 2030 agenda and 17 development goals, just like the 2015 climate agreement. The European experience with social democracy and Christian democracy made global vision possible. But now that its agenda has been universally adopted, the European leadership in its implementation has become essential.

A governing coalition in Germany should help make Europe leadership. French President Emmanuel Macron has offered some important ideas: a Europian finance minister; financing for an invested Europjan programme; more emphasis on innovation; the financial tax transactiond to finance increased aid to Africa, where Europe has strategic interests in a long-term development; and a more general tax harmonisation.

In contrast to the Germans who oppose such an idea, the European Finance and Eurobond Minister [an international connection with Europe] would not and would have to lead to a fiscal breach, but more so in restoring the growth of green investments in Europe. China has proposed to build a green infrastructure that would connect Southeast Asia and Central Asia with Europe. This is the time for Europe to provide an important vision on the issue, and create partnership with China to upgrade Eurasia's infrastructure with a less carbon-debt future.

If Europe plays its letters properly, Europe's scientific and technical excellence could flourish in such a vision. If not, all of us would have to drive Chinese electric cars that would be filled with Chinese equipment in the future, while Germany's automotive industry would become a historical introst.

The European Finance Minister needs, for more, to finally end the self-inflicted Europe agony after the nightmare of the 2008 financial crisis. It is hard to believe, but Greece's crisis continues to this day on the scale of the Great Depression, ten years after the crisis peak.

This is because Europe is incompetent, and involuntarily Germany, to clean up the financial mess [including Greece's unpaid debts] in a correct and pre-executive manner [like the 1953 London agreement on German foreign debt, as Germany's friends have repeatedly repeated]. If Germany does not assist in leading this issue, Europe as such will face a prolonged crisis of social, economic and political repercussions or major social, economic and political consequences.

Within three weeks, Macron will call on world leaders in Paris on the second anniversary of the climate accord. France should still be talking here, but it should be Germany. During Germany's G20 presidency, Merkel held 19 of the 20 members of this group dedicated to the Parisi agreement, despite Donald Trump's shameful attempt to break it.

Yes, corruption in US policy [especially the campaign funded by the gas and oil industry] has threatened the global consensus for climate change. But Germany remained firm. The new coalition must ensure that the country's energy transition achieves targets set by the government last year in 2020. These reachable and important commitments should not be part of the shopping in coalition talks.

An alliance between CDU/ CSU-SPD, working with France and the rest of Europe, can and should do more for climate change. More important, Europe was given an energy plan comparable to decarbonizing the planet completely by 2050.

This alliance would make possible a new foreign policy for Europe, one that promotes lasting peace and development, supported by new security commitments that do not depend heavily on the US. Europe, as a magnet for hundreds of millions of people who migrate for economic reasons, can and should, take control of its borders, allowing it to strengthen and strengthen the limits needed for the migration issue.

The political terms of this great coalition seem clear. The SPD must give up leadership in economic and financial policies, while the CDU/ CSU has to hold the Chancellorship. This would be a real coalition, not one that would politically bury the SPD or deny the means to push its green, incriminate agenda, and committed to EU affairs.

With Merkel and Martin Shulz as leader, the German government would be excellent, responsible, and in the hands of experienced people. Germany's friends and many supporters of sustainable global development are hoping this will happen.

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