Germania: Grande Coalizione in Difficoltà

14/7/2006

Alcuni esponenti social-democratici del governo tedesco di coalizione hanno duramente attaccato i progetti di Angela Merkel in materia di riforma del sistema sanitario. Come era prevedibile, la popolarità di Merkel è stata rapidamente intaccata dai propositi di riduzione del Welfare State; tuttavia, anche il mondo imprenditoriale tedesco è contrario all’impostazione della proposta targata CDU.

Un’intelligence brief scritta per il PINR cerca di spiegare gli effetti sulla politica europea di un indebolimento del governo tedesco:

With Germany concentrated on domestic problems, it is almost certain that Europe as a whole will not undertake any ambitious reform battles. After the shock of the 2005 French and Dutch rejection of the proposed E.U. Constitutional Treaty, the Union was unable to decide whether it wants to re-propose the same draft at a later date or if it will instead significantly modify it. Germany, together with Spain and Italy, lean toward the first option. Yet France, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and Poland are determined to introduce changes to the text.

The result of such divergent views is that E.U. political decision makers decided to prolong the period of “reflection” over the constitutional issue until 2008-2009. The fact that France and the Netherlands hold crucial elections in 2007, and Germany and Britain in 2009, has contributed to this delay.

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