Didn't think that the negotiations would be finished so quickly.

@jamesjosep4393

2 жыл бұрын

Indeed Obi Wan, they were short.

@awahawah1790

2 жыл бұрын

Truly, Germans are really efficient huh

@danielwebb8402

2 жыл бұрын

Quickly? Was "after the public voted" so could say was too late.

@digantdalal

2 жыл бұрын

@@danielwebb8402 it’s not just coalition, they have written down whole manifesto for governance for upcoming 4 years to minute details. Unlike in UK, governments in Germany don’t do U Turns on important policies like tax raise / social benefits. So, everything must be cleared and well documented upon agreement.

@danielwebb8402

2 жыл бұрын

@@digantdalal Was the pandemic spending in the previous government's minute detail? Or do events happen? Was joint EU borrowing for example in the last coalition's minutes detail initially? But again. Shouldn't that minute detail, if you believe having that in stone for the lifetime of a parliament is a plus, have been provided to the public before they voted? Otherwise, it's not a democratic plus at all. It's just a constraint on future actions. They are setting themselves. Post election. They are marking their own homework. Which the UK system did also do when there was the recent example of a coalition. They did set out more of their agreed policies initially than a single party government would have done. Because that is a way of reducing future arguments. Not because it is de-facto a better way of setting 2025 policy to do it today than in 2024.

1:45 SPD also supported Cannabis legalization 3:45 Minimum wage was way more important to the SPD than the Greens. 5:25 Baerbock will be foreign minister, Habeck will be economic and climate minister

@jonasvolkmann2100

2 жыл бұрын

Nah... It was equally important for the Greens.

@CoolMan-ig1ol

2 жыл бұрын

True. The greens do not specifically stress on min wages.

@kgm5060

2 жыл бұрын

@@jonasvolkmann2100 Tell me. Which party put up posters arguing for a €12 minimum wage? The Greens are bound to support this, but the SPD argued and fought for a minimum wage.

@jonasvolkmann2100

2 жыл бұрын

The Greens had also 12€ minimum wage posters and discussed a 15€ minimum wage. The Greens fought for a 12€ minimum wage even before the SPD copied it.

@antyspi4466

2 жыл бұрын

@@jonasvolkmann2100 The Greens did never make it a front and center issue like the SPD, and that was for a reason. The Greens focused heavily on environmental issues, social matters were essentially a sideshow - needed for a well rounded party manifesto, but not essential for the soul of the party. For the SPD however the minimum wage was the go to response for questions relating to social politics.

Fun fact: when Olaf Scholz gets voted and sworn in as chancellor on Dec 6th, now interim chancellor Merkel will be just a few days short of becoming Germany's longest-ruling head of government.

@miklosendrody5223

2 жыл бұрын

Just the third, Bismarck ruled for over 22 years, 2nd is Helmut Kohl with 16 years, and Merkel will be the 3rd anyway.

@kosinusify

2 жыл бұрын

@@miklosendrody5223 Yeah, I was only counting modern Germany

@alyssashady

2 жыл бұрын

@@miklosendrody5223 Don't forget Hitler!

@maxthexpfarmer3957

2 жыл бұрын

@@alyssashady Hitler was 12ish years, much shorter.

@mad0131

2 жыл бұрын

@@maxthexpfarmer3957 Technically only from Jan 1933 to August 1934, because upon the death of Hindenburg, Hitler combined the roles of Head of Government, Head of State of Commander-in-Cheif of the armed forces into the role of 'Fürher'

12€ Minimum wage was one of the key points of the SPD and not the Greens. Although they support that.

@kosinusify

2 жыл бұрын

It was basically the only thing with substance that Olaf Scholz stood for.

@MrUnicorn15

2 жыл бұрын

Both put the 12€ minimum wage in the short version of their election manifestos which shows a strong support from both parties I'd say. Still, 13€ would've been preferable when it comes to election manifestos.

@mcmarkmarkson7115

2 жыл бұрын

12€ minimum wage = is less than 8€ minimum wage was a few years ago. Inflation will skyrocket, energy is already 300% more expensive and will become more expensive. Rent is off the charts. Building a house? (not something minimum wage workers think about)

@victor_venema

2 жыл бұрын

@@mcmarkmarkson7115 A little known economic fact: wage increases for managers do not increase inflation, nor does an increasing share of the created wealth going to the already rich, nor printing money and giving it to banks and corporations. Only poor people suffering a bit less is an inflation problem. /s

@BobuxGuy

2 жыл бұрын

@@mcmarkmarkson7115 Do you just copy/paste the same thing in every comment? lol

Wow, these different parties actually worked together to make a plan. I know Germany's government is different to others but, I wish more country's political parties cooperated more like this.

@comradeghostboi7989

2 жыл бұрын

why should political parties cooperate with each other

@BearHeadedWerewolf

2 жыл бұрын

@@comradeghostboi7989 So they can come to a compromise for the betterment of the people.

@peterfireflylund

2 жыл бұрын

Long, detailed negotiations and big documents that detail everything they agree upon are very common for coalitions in Europe.

@kawallabair3216

2 жыл бұрын

@@comradeghostboi7989 Because the purpose of politics should be policy, and focusing on the good of the country and constituants in line with their democratic demands, rather than a ruthless assailment for power where parties would rather harm their own citizens than work with the opposition.

@arnoschaefer28

2 жыл бұрын

Coalition governments are pretty much inevitable given the German parliamentary system and electoral split, which means that compromise is necessary and not frowned upon by the electorate as much as in other countries. Still, during the previous election in 2017, the FDP refused a coalition option with the Greens, which led to another round of the CDU/CSU/SPD coalition, something many people did not particularly favor. So it is good the FDP came around this time. Politically, this will probably count as a center left coalition, the Greens and SPD being more to the left and the FDP being more to the right, but in the end still not radically different from the previous eight years. It will be interesting to see if they tackle some of the issues that Merkel kind of kicked down the road.

Small critique: When referring to which party got what point through, you don't talk about the SPD very much at all. That makes it seem, as if they did not have any projects, which is misguiding, since the 12€minimum wage for example is also an SPD project. Actually, it is far more central for them than it is for the Greens

@abc4828

2 жыл бұрын

The SPD just won the election because Laschet from CDU and Baerbock from the greens were more unpopular than Scholz, not because most germans agree with them.

@MrLowbob

2 жыл бұрын

@@abc4828 this still doesnt change the fact that they are the biggest party involved in that coalition and 12€ minimum wage is an SPD project. as little as im a fan of the spd at least associating parties correctly to their political goals should still be done.

@1996Horst

2 жыл бұрын

still bad to know that we get a 12€ minimum wage 10 years after everyone agreeded that 14€ should be the minimum wage by 2018 better by 2016. As a non BaföG student I regulary feel left out. If I work 20h a week I will make around 800-1000€ (when i find a job that offers more than 10€ for what essentially are 4 minimum wage jobs put into one for the same money). After that I pay around 150-250€ in taxes, insurance and other things. leaving me with a maximum of 750€ I can earn leagally as a student. As germany considers working for more than 20h a week while being a student as to much and you`d lose your student qualification if you did work more than 20h. (which is why so many student work uncounted overtime). So after 20h of weekly mostly physical hard work I am left with almost 300€ less than BaföG students recieve without any of their benefits, like not paying Rundfunkgebühren, getting back what they pay for insurance and more and on top of that they can stll go out and work for up to 400€ extra. So here I am working my life away to study for 750€ a month while a bafög student can have almost 1400€. And then I get shamed because I lost my bafög because I was missing 5 stupid points (literaly one exam I failed in the first attempt but passed in the second) and lost my full support and went from 100% to 0% in a week. Because that is how you encourage people to finish their studies by putting them in absolute poverty because of one failed exam. And the politicians do not care. Not one bit. Even during corona every single "benefit" a student got was given by institutions who had the leaway to give these benefits (and some ended up being punished for it). And what did we get? up to 3 times 400€ but only if we earned less than 50€ in the 3 requested months. I know of people who worked with Corona, because otherwise they would have starved. I know people whos friedns went and did their job so they would not starve. And now we have a left leaning "social" government and it does even less than the old one. Absofuckinglutely great. Infact now people like me will also loose our social mobility because getting to anywhere might increase in cost by up to 200% depending on what form of transport you choose or rather is available.

Germany, 2 months after election: coalition talks are done, ministers appointed. Netherlands: 7,5 months since election: coalition talks still going, PM was almost ousted, not started with appointing ministers. I'm jealous, Germany. Belgium: hi.

@Theodisker

2 жыл бұрын

i would sent you this goverment with love. Nothing postiv freom it will emerge.

@DGAMINGDE

2 жыл бұрын

Tbh I'm German and jealous that Germany hasn't as many political opitions as the dutch.

@immedekker2504

2 жыл бұрын

@@DGAMINGDE You should be. In Germany, all political parties are from different ideologies (socialists, christians, liberals, nationalists, greens). We had this in the Netherlands for a very long time, but it all went away in the last +/- 10 years. For example: we have 5 liberal parties, 2 social-liberal parties, 1 farmer party (not joking) 2 anti-racist party (one party of which has only 1 seat in parliament) and 3 christian parties. We have many more parties tho. It makes no sense at all. In this stage of spliterization we should have a vote margin of 5% of the vote to get into parlaiment, like you guys have

@DGAMINGDE

2 жыл бұрын

@@immedekker2504 But the christian parties have extreme differences. The CDA is more like the CDU/CSU, the CU is more left-leaning and the SGP is christian fundamentalist. D66 is more left leaning and progressive while the VVD is more on the centre-right. Volt is pan-european. Idk who the other 2 mainly liberal parties are The 1 BIJ1 member left DENK because DENK was to socially conservative. There are reasons why there are 2 "immigrant parties". What is wrong with having the BBB than concentrates on farmers issues. The polls say it gets support. It has some similarities to the German Free Voters. I strongly oppose any fom of threshold as there are far more democratic solutions. One of them would be the austrian "Proporzregierung". This could be forced if parties can't form a coalition after a set date (like 3 months) and would force a power-sharing government between the largest parties (or a timed system like in the Swiss government is used). If parties can't form a government this should lead to smaller voices being punished and thrown out of parliament. Instead they should be forced to work together and something tells me if this was a timed thing there would be a government today (also the parliament still works and passes stuff without a government).

@HappyBeezerStudios

Жыл бұрын

@@immedekker2504 We had 5 liberal parties between the world wars. From left liberal to national liberal. Managed to clean that up afterwards. Just like how the CDU/CSU union is meant to represent all christians, unlike before where there were separate confessional parties.

I just read the BBC coverage and then this video popped up. Your coverage was much more enlightening. Also, the beeb seemed to claim that there was no mention of the UK, when you found an explicit mention of Brexit. Very good journalism.

@yusteryumeister4601

2 жыл бұрын

Its funny how quite often very small media outlets like this do a much better job at journalism than most giant media corperations

@MuunNii

2 жыл бұрын

@@yusteryumeister4601 that does not mean however that they didnt make any mistakes. Their videos on Germany usually contain a whole bunch of mistakes and misrepresentations. Nothing major, but still not something a more major publication would make.

@yusteryumeister4601

2 жыл бұрын

@@MuunNii fair enough, its probably bc me and this guy are both from the UK so i think his uk coverage is very good and i dont know enough to say if hes wrong about other countries except the US bc i studied us politics

@86pp73

2 жыл бұрын

To be honest, it's not really worth talking about, the new coalition is merely echoing the stance of Brussels and every other EU member (expect France); "We won't be pushed around by Johnson and his goons, but we refuse to actively take an aggressive stance". Nothing different to Merkel's tenure, and it doesn't need to be, it's the most sensible thing they can do regards Brexit.

@Luredreier

2 жыл бұрын

@@yusteryumeister4601 This is fundamentally a UK news channel. So it's natural that their coverage of the UK is more accurate then that of non-anglophone countries. They're doing a good job researching things. But unlike big news outlets they don't have people on the ground. Big outlets *do* have people on the ground, but have limited funding pr reported news compared to the cost of their total staff, so while they of course have individual news that's *extremely* well researched because it's deemed important there's also going to be lower priority news that's covered but where the news are reported without as high quality research as would have been required for a 100% accurate news story. Different outlets will have different prioritization of different topics, so you'll get the best coverage by using multiple sources. Ideally from multiple nations.

1:44 SPD also supported the introduction of Cannabis legalization, just in a slower way 2:33 2030 is not a fixed date like 2038, but just a try as long as energysafety can be secured 3:46 Minimum wage was way more important to the SPD than the Greens. 4:02 But there probably will be a new financial instrument introduced to circumvent the debt brake 5:23 Baerbock will be foreign minister, Habeck will be economic and climate minister 5:55 There are like 2 sentences concerning china in this hugh paper without any mention of defending human rights, etc. 6:13 They intend to postpone the 2% aim without any concrete date and instead contribute in different ways.

@Mari.L.

2 жыл бұрын

I don't know were TLDR got there information from, but as a german who studies political science and keeps himself informed from variouse sources with different bias, i can tell you, that the reports this channel probably uses for its news on germany are most likely (at least a bit) biased towards the greens. I have seen that already in some of there videos, what is not very surprising since a lot of newsreporters are ex-academics, who are very often supporters of the green party.

@MuunNii

2 жыл бұрын

@@Mari.L. As a scientific cooperator working in a german university i can whole heartedly confirm the aforementioned in TLDR´s research. My guess would be that they rely heavily on friends/colleagues for their information about the german political process.

@patrickfitzgerald2861

2 жыл бұрын

And none of this will matter if Russia invades Ukraine.

@wyacheslawkodanev2107

2 жыл бұрын

@@patrickfitzgerald2861 as a russian who studies history and political science and keep himself informed from various sources with different bias (I loved this formula from Marius L and it describes me perfectly), I can say that possibility of Russia invading Ukraine is like 0.0001% and extremely overestimated by media in Western Europe. Russians are as scared of war as you are. And the generation which hardly dominates among our decision-makers (boomers) was nurtured in fear of nuclear war and mutual extermination. And I hope (and I would make an educated guess that it's true) that certain boomer decision-maker knows where the red line lies and that the only way to win after crossing that line is mutual extermination. I would guess that they want to scare Zelenskiy to take down some of recent russophobic laws (for example, ban on school education in Russian language) or give more authority to Russian-populated areas (in a perfect world, imho, Ukraine would stay a normal independent state, but become a federation like Germany or USA, not a unitary republic, and also have Ukrainian and Russian as official languages, like Irish and English are official languages in Ireland -- for most of Russians both in Russia and in Ukraine it would be enough; it would be even perfect-er if Ukraine promises not to demolish monuments to Russian soldiers who died in WW2) - or at least to distract people from Lukashenko's shit (damn, Lukashenko is nuts and I don't endorse him in any way; we now have TWO examples of political regimes in the world that keep existing only because of money they get from one other country - Maduro's Venezuela and Lukashenko's Belarus - and both are supported by my taxes, sometimes I despise my country's traditional generosity).

@kaparg

2 жыл бұрын

If the debt brake will be circumvented, it means the SPD and Greens will spend irresponsibly, so the only thing the FDP got with low taxes is just making an economic crisis faster, i certainly hope that it's a plan to get more votes, so morally questionable as it might be, and not a confirmation that they'll bow before the left on anything

sounds like a solid coalition, the three parties appear very cooperative and end goal oriented

@masi416

2 жыл бұрын

As a german, we can not use the words "end" and "goal" in that configuration, at least not translated into german. Because of history.

@theawesomeshulk6412

2 жыл бұрын

@@masi416 oh

@JN-ug5ky

2 жыл бұрын

@@masi416 Of course you can.

@evoluxman9935

2 жыл бұрын

@@masi416 oh shit oh fuck oh no

@MarcHatePage

2 жыл бұрын

@@masi416 oh shit I didn't think of that 😳

Please note that the designated finance minister's name is Lindner (note the second N there).

@NardoVogt

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah ... but Linder sounds cool too. Can we change that?

Do a video on the new Swedish chaos

@namonaite

2 жыл бұрын

for being someone living in sweden I don't keep up much with the news but when isn't there chaos?

@sega616

2 жыл бұрын

What’s happening over at Sweden this time?

@LordDim1

2 жыл бұрын

@@sega616 They elected a new prime minister, just a few hours later she resigned because her government collapsed before it was even sworn in, because the opposition successfully enacted their budget, which the Swedish greens didn’t like, so they left her coalition

@sega616

2 жыл бұрын

@@LordDim1 wow. That is both hilarious and also crazy at the same time.

@karankapoor2701

2 жыл бұрын

Swedenistan

As a German, I think it was time for the Union (= CDU + CSU) to not be in the government. And for that to happen, it's necessary for the traffic light coalition to actually work out. I'm happy that they made it this far, even though they were likely to succeed when they announced that they start going into coalition negotiations

@haglasu1468

2 жыл бұрын

Although EU foreign policy is pretty much nonsense

@ulrichbrodowsky5016

2 жыл бұрын

@@haglasu1468 What has that to do with my comment?

As a german i am quite happy with the progressive goverment but a bit afraid that for too high expactations it is too early...we mussn't forget that FDP is from economically point of view very different from the SDP /Greens.. Furthermore there is no really a plan how to finance that all ...

@snare5903

2 жыл бұрын

It's hard to have high expectations for a government phasing out nuclear.

@alexandermayer8920

2 жыл бұрын

@@snare5903 it's not the incoming government that is phasing out nucelar, it was decided to switch off the last nuclear power plant by 2022 and now it would not be financially viable to turn them back on again (as their operators have said)

@vegemarkr4582

2 жыл бұрын

i mean, through taxation? It doesnt seem like the spending is that muchhigher then the cdu spd coalition and the fdp will make sure to cut costs at every corner. Yes, maybe the environmental plans will cost a bit but the previouse goverment spend quite a bunch too and they survived. Germany is pretty wealthy, we can most definetly afford this goverment

@ifer1280

2 жыл бұрын

Well if the three parties feel confident enough to publish this and form a government to execute it, I doubt they've taken a bit gamble on financing it.

@Chrissy717

2 жыл бұрын

@@snare5903 nuclear energy isn't green and we should stop pretending it is. Nuclear energy in Germany would cost more then renewables. In fact, renewables could even be cheaper once someone just puts some money in it. Nuclear energy is a short term solution for the next few decades, not something we should do as a long term thing.

3:40 the 12€ minimum wage was the central promise of the spd, so framing it as "the greens getting it through" is a bit weird. both wanted it.

The graphics have really become amazing recently, well done

You guys need to talk about WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED IN SWEDEN YESTERDAY

@freetime5803

2 жыл бұрын

What happened?

@rallysmith6403

2 жыл бұрын

@@freetime5803 I mean it is just searching ‘Sweden’ and it comes up but anyway: The Independent says, “Sweden’s first female prime minister surprisingly resigned on Wednesday just hours after she was appointed. Magdalena Andersson stood down after her coalition partner, the Greens, quit the government and her budget failed to pass...”

@Marcusjnmc

2 жыл бұрын

​@@rallysmith6403 thanks, this doesn't seem too huge, that a coalition that can't pass it's first budget/ceases to exist would break down seems fairly straightforward, it practically requires a new election

@rallysmith6403

2 жыл бұрын

@@Marcusjnmc Np and true

@petrograd4068

2 жыл бұрын

@@freetime5803 Sweden elected a new prime minister, and then she resigned again later the same day. The reason was this: The government was supposed to contain two parties - Social Democrats and Environmental Party. It was also supported by two additional parties - Center Party and Left Party. To get elected, Magdalena Andersson had to negotiate with the Left Party for their support. However, Center Party is trying to be a "middle of the road" alternative that refuses to cooperate with either party they view as extreme - Sweden Democrats on the right wing, as well as the Left Party on the left wing. So they were upset Andersson negotiated a budget with the Left Party. Due to this, they decided to support her as prime minister, but not their budget - even though the Center Party had been heavily involved in the negotiation of that budget. This led to the coalition's budget being voted down in parliament, and the opposition's budget getting approved. The Environmental Party was outraged and felt this would stifle the environmental efforts they had negotiated into the current budget. They felt governing on such a budget would hurt them in next year's elections. They're already at risk of falling short of the 4% threshold required to stay in parliament next year. So they left government. There is historical precedent for this kind of thing happening. In the 1970s, when one of the newly elected government's parties decided to leave the coalition, that led to the prime minister resigning (because they felt they would get booted out anyway otherwise). Due to this precedent, Magdalena Andersson decided to resign. However, all four parties that accepted the Social Democrats + Environmental Party government yesterday have said they're willing to support a single party Social Democrat government too. So Magdalena Andersson will almost certainly be elected prime minister again next week, just without any other parties in her government.

Sigh. How come the germans started formation later than in the Netherlands and are now already finished while here there is still nothing close to an agreement? Maybe I should move to germany. I like their plans. and probably more than I will when they're finished here.

@victor_venema

2 жыл бұрын

Germany is The Netherlands when it was still nice. You'll feel at home.

@matrix0897

2 жыл бұрын

The great thing is, you can come here if you like. Thats the most satisfying part about Europe till this day.

About the right to vote for people under 18 (Either 16 or 17), it is a pretty split issue in at least some European countries. On one hand it makes the country more democratic and places the average voting age lower when it has already been heightened a lot by an increasing older population that has a larger vote percentage. On the other hand, there is a reason why so few young people vote - It is not easy to know everything in politics so it can feel like you are voting with wrong, or at least incomplete, information. Especially so in local elections, which I can attest to even though I am far more interested in politics than the average young voter. It would, therefore, be great to see a video about the issue, maybe based on Germany since it seems relevant to German politics ATM.

@tucatnev123

2 жыл бұрын

@@marioferreira7605 but what if this happens merely because they don't have political power on the first place - so why to be bothered about it? But when they offered political capita then there will be politicians to represent and articulate their problems - which will induce political education on the sideline, etc...

@dandun3244

2 жыл бұрын

I can attest, having been a 16-17 year old, that lowering the voting age is ludicrous. 18 is optimum, mainly due to having more experience of the world and fact that you’re overall more developed/independent. During adolescence, every year is a significant leap. This shouldn’t be an issue.

@tucatnev123

2 жыл бұрын

@@dandun3244 I do believe lowering the voting age and emancipating the youth is the good way to make our society more inclusive. There is difficult to point on any existing limit as a good limit because you don't know how the situation would roll out without that given conditions. I disagree with any condition, limit, or criteria on voting. Voting should happen more often, we should be asked more often in more relevant questions.

@rearea260

2 жыл бұрын

there are plenty of old people who vote and dont have a clue about the different parties and what they stand for, especially those who vote the same party for decades no matter what since friday for future many younglings have a certain amount of political education i wouldnt put far below average and in any case lowering the average age of voters is a good thing, not only for everything regarding reforms and future

@dgc4059

2 жыл бұрын

Old people are far more oblivious than young people though.

Informative and clear. Thanks!

3:06 That's actually not correct. Modern Solar technology has a base price of 2-6ct/kWh compared to nuclear's of 12-19ct/kWh, so overall this will be cheaper (MUCH! cheaper). The reason for the idea that nuclear power is cheaper than renewables is because it is A) highly subsidised and B) compared to solar & wind technology from the 1990s, which has had massive performance increases since then (which is often overlooked cause the panels still look the same as they did 30years ago)

Its SPD (first the P, then the D) and FDP (first the D, then the P)

I had hoped you'd do a video about this!

The 12€ were the main election topic of the SPD not the Greens

The only contentious issue in the new coalition agreement is most likely the right to vote at the age of 16. Der Spegiel conducted a survey back in October and found that the right to vote at 16 is not popular among the German population. Surprisingly, 18-24 year olds supporting or opposing the right to vote at 16 are split by 49-49. All five of my German friends said “no” to that age 16 voting right but agreed on other subjects in this agreement. Would you please do a video on Sweden?

@joaoomega6627

2 жыл бұрын

HELL NO Young people today are way more ignorant and stupid than before, the voting age should be raise to 25 at least. Just ask students at university to day you will be shock at the lack of critical thinking and facts. This is a leftist scam to get more votes, young people are overwhelming leftists. Those that don't work or pay taxes!

@polytechnika

2 жыл бұрын

@@joaoomega6627 Ok Boomer

@MrGERiarza

2 жыл бұрын

@@joaoomega6627 You make me want to implement this younger voting age in my country as well. The young people are the ones that will need to live and work with the decisions often made by the uncaring and out of touch older generation.

@joshuahollowell9170

2 жыл бұрын

@@MrGERiarza the older generation are the ones who already worked for what they have. It's reasonable to be worried about the younger generation, given that most 16 year olds have never even worked before, and thus dont know the value of working for what you have. Literal zoomer here btw

@R1cardoo

2 жыл бұрын

@@joaoomega6627 leftism scam? I think it's a right wing scam since 16 years old are the types of edgy humor, dark humor and watch the videos of compilation of destroying the blue hair sjws

This is certainly going to be interesting. They will be judged harshly on everything they do. With heavy duty items, such as the 4th wave of Covid and a failing pension system coming up, they will face massive challenges. I and many Germans have given them a chance, hopefully they will deliver, we do not really have an alternative.

@k3v1n73

2 жыл бұрын

i had prefered red/red/green of traffic light, but as long as the cdu/csu is out im somewhat happy

@pavelduba6868

2 жыл бұрын

"We do not really have an alternative" - well, what about the Alternative for Germany? :D That certainly is an alternative.

@86pp73

2 жыл бұрын

@@pavelduba6868 I recall the type of ideology the AfD is inclined towards did not have a very good end result for Germany and is not popular in the modern era.

@Sundara229

2 жыл бұрын

@@pavelduba6868 An alternative to peace and prosperity for sure.

@emcotec1463

2 жыл бұрын

I think that traffic is a good chance beacause the partys are different and this makes them considere each other more and make more deals to get things done

Funny thing is, we in the Netherlands were for decades the front-runner on cannabis liberalisation. Now we are falling behind our peers, with weed selling being legal, but growing it is still illegal, so the cultivation and profits still mainly go to criminals.

@Red1Green2Blue3

2 жыл бұрын

How is that possible? Are cannabis sellers not obliged to document their costs like normal businesses?

@augustus331

2 жыл бұрын

​@@Red1Green2Blue3 No. It's really weird. You have the so-called "back door" of coffeeshops where they buy the weed in cash from the dealers. The coffee shop pays in cash, which is why criminals sometimes wait at this backdoor to steal both the cash and the weed. Considering the Netherlands has an increasing problem with real crime (cocaine, xtc, etc), I think the police has bigger fish to fry.

@Red1Green2Blue3

2 жыл бұрын

@@augustus331 Hmm, although I don't disagree that legalising growing is a no-brainer it seems like the issue is that shops don't have to record their suppliers and expenditures. How are they complying with the law regarding strength and strain if they don't know where it is sourced?

@sonneh86

2 жыл бұрын

NL needs to be ahead of the pack again, by legalization xtc

@augustus331

2 жыл бұрын

@@Red1Green2Blue3 That's the issue, there are no (enforcable) laws on it. During American prohibition, people only made strong liquor to get as much psycho-active substance in as little volume as possible. It's the same with weed, some of them are as strong as hard-drugs, because 'criminals' grow it, they make it as strong as possible to maximise profit.

I'm quite happy with these new goals, overall very positive. I'm not German, but an EU citizen, and Germany has a big influence in the union.

3:20 it's the SPD not the SDP, how do you guys keep getting that one wrong 😅😅😅

@FridolinH

2 жыл бұрын

They are saying Social Democratic Party. I get the intention. Even tho the D doesn't stand for Democratic as Sozialdemokratisch is one word in german

@wyacheslawkodanev2107

2 жыл бұрын

I also sometimes say SDP, because for me it is Social Democratic Party. Though in Russian (my native language) it is even funnier. So, SPD in Russian is СДПГ (word-by-word - Social Democratic Party of Germany). But the word 'freedom' starts with the same letter as 'social', so Free Democrats are logically СДП, but we add the second letter so we dont confuse СДП with СДПГ - so, it's СвДП (FrDP - Free Democrats Party). But it's 4 letters with 1 С, 1 Д and 1 П now, so everyone still confuse them and sometimes don't understand which German party you're talking about.

@peterfireflylund

2 жыл бұрын

Dyslexia. Seriously, it’s just dyslexia. He makes similar mistakes with UK subjects. It’s not because he doesn’t try.

@kasetoast8354

2 жыл бұрын

I start to think, that it become a running gag

Great summary! Will you also do a video about the results of the Czech parliamentary elections and the new government that is being formed these days? Since you did a video about the Pirate Party, which will have 3 ministries including foreign affairs, I think it would fit the channel well.

@ritter06

2 жыл бұрын

I have heard Czech president does not accept a PirateParty foreign minister, Unfortunately.

@VusCZ

2 жыл бұрын

@@ritter06 He is not very happy about it, but he will have to accept him in the end. He doesn't have the right to veto a specific minister, he can only veto the whole government, which is quite unlikely at this time. However he is very ill these days, so the change of power will likely take time.

3:18 It always sounds wrong when you call the SPD SDP. Its short for: *S*ozialdemokratische *P*artei *D*eutschlands. Directly translated: *S*ocialdemocratic *P*arty (of) *G*ermany (In German: *D*eutschland, hence the D.) The D does not represent the word democratic because we germans like to merge words together into veery long atrocities. So we merged social and democratic into socialdemocratic. SDP is a German band, and think there used to be a political party way back in the day that had SDP as its abbreviation. Now that the SPD will most likely be the party of our new chancelor, you should prolly start getting this right. 😅 (Edit: at 7:39 you got it 👍)

@meritond2339

2 жыл бұрын

To be honest SDP just means the social democratic party, and since were talking about Germany it is clear what social democratic party we are talking about. Und ja, es hoert sich etwas komisch an, nicht aber falsch finde ich.

@rm0986

2 жыл бұрын

@@meritond2339 Naja falsch ist es natürlich schon, weil wie schon gesagt, sozialdemokratisch ist ein Wort, in Parteibezeichnungen kriegt ein Wort nur einen Buchstaben.

@gerdforster883

2 жыл бұрын

The SDP was indeed a political party. It was the east german "sister party" of the SPD in the waning days of the GDR. They immediately joined the SPD when re-unification came into effect.

@Sw4lley

2 жыл бұрын

@@meritond2339 SDP is a different party in Germany, that’s where the real problem begins. It was one of the party’s that started back in the DDR right before the fall of the wall. Then after the wall was gone, they merged themselves with the SPD. Then later some people from the old SDP and PDS left again and started a new party called „Die Linke“. Atleast that’s how I remember it over the past 30 years. Didn’t exactly fact check again…

unbelievably, astonishingly based germany

@jooplin

2 жыл бұрын

On what?

with the exception of their continued strange aversion to nuclear power, these policies seem, at least on the surface, strictly good

@DarkHarlequin

2 жыл бұрын

There is a lot of facets to the aversion to nuclear power, a lot of which are rooted in events during the cold war era but also playing into things like cultural approach to certain issues and how the CDU capitalized on the topic post Fukushima. Whether you agree with teh stance or not you can safely chalk it up to 'historically grown cultural context'.

@andrewemerson1613

2 жыл бұрын

@@DarkHarlequin definitely true, though I'm the type to regard such attitudes as a culture of being wrong... I mean, I live in the US. where there is no shortage of people clinging to ideas that are... faulty at best, for deep rooted reasons

@666rsrs

2 жыл бұрын

what people outside of germany don't really understand is how much of a contentious issue nuclear power was in german society for 30 years. when angela merkel decided to phase out of nuclear power after the fukushima catastrophe, she ended probably the most polarized political conflict in germany. because no party - not even the fdp whose members are generally very supportive of nuclear power if you ask them in private - would ever risk resparking that conflict again, there is just no imaginable government that would reopen the nuclear power plants in the future, no matter how sensible it would be for climate policy. it's sad, but that's the way it is.

@MrHodoAstartes

2 жыл бұрын

@@666rsrs Yup. We are still playing hot potato with nuclear waste because Germany is incredibly dense in terms of settlement, nature preserves and other things that prevent the placement of nuclear waste storage. It has become so politically toxic to allow it anywhere, no regional body can accept such a place in their backyard. Anyone to do so would just be voted out and replaced with someone who would cancel any plans immediately, starting the process all over. So no, Germany cannot use more nuclear energy as long as there isn't a magical place away from everything that will store nuclear power plants and their waste forever.

@peterfireflylund

2 жыл бұрын

@@MrHodoAstartes which is crazy, because Germany actually has an ideal waste storage in Görleben! The “Greens” have been truly toxic for Germany...

All their measures seem perfect. I'm surprised it went that well! This is an upgrade.

The negotiations were faster than the last time, 2017.

Sounds like a really solid and convincing plan to me. Much better than expected. With a good amount of cooperation and compromising. Good Job Germany, much love from CH

They said coal is "ideally" phased out by 2030, so it's not a committed plan

@Luredreier

2 жыл бұрын

Good. I'm glad that the greens got that in, but also that they're being realistic enough to have some flexibility included. I hope that the energy companies takes this into account and invest accordingly. (I'm a green voter in my own country, I'm not German). But at the same time by not having a fixed commited date they're flexible enough that they *can* adjust a little bit if things go wrong, in order to avoid too many people having their lives destroyed, giving people a chance to adapt to the changes.

@zeroyuki92

2 жыл бұрын

What are they planning to rely on when they want to phase out coal but still refusing nuclear, especially in the winter? Gas? Keep buying from nuclear powered france?

So better than the UK shambles.

We would need a similar system in France, a clear written and agreed program by the main parties represented at the Parliament, instead of having to rely on what goes in Macron’s mind at coffee each morning. I hope the German experience on cannabis legalization will be positive, which would push France to adopt the same measures. I do not smoke at all but the drug illegal business is the first factor of insecurity in France.

@vomm

2 жыл бұрын

We will see. The problem is the SPD, which wants to regulate legalization very strongly. Too much regulation, however, makes prices higher and could discourage many or keep them buying from the black market. If the legalization fails because of too much regulation, this could be used by politicians to say in the future "see, legalization of drugs does not work".

@unconventionalideas5683

2 жыл бұрын

@@vomm Everyone wants it though, which is important.

One aspect has not been mentioned, but sparked quite some discussion in Germany: General speed limits on the autobahn. As you know, in Germany, the majority of autobahn segments have no speed limit whatsoever. For environmental and safety reasons, greens and SPD argued for a general speed limit of 130 km/h (80 mph). This would save about 1.9 megatons of CO2. The FDP, to which limitless speeding is part of human freedom (or car owners freedom to be precise), insisted that this should not make it into the coalition agreement and got its way. Speaking of CO2 (2:57): Total emissions are not interesting here, per capita emission is what should be looked at. It is not surprising that the Netherlands emits less CO2 than Germany, is it?

@MellonVegan

2 жыл бұрын

I'd agree with the last part, though the amount we lead by is certainly shocking (and thus maybe helpful) to see, as well.

Wow, I find myself really liking this policy program but let's see how it actually plays out.

German here. I was pretty sure that the SPD wanted tge 12 Euro minimum wage and actually made it a condition for a coalition.

Dutch people: whoa, slow down with the coalition! You guys have until Easter at least

I will be optimistic until proven wrong and hope that the differences between the coalition partners only makes them stronger. Every party has dumb policies and I hope that a coalition of 3 will expose and get rid of most of them in a 2 vs 1 vote, something that's impossible in a coalition of 2 parties.

This sounds great! We'll have to see how strong their leadership is, but these policies have my full support!

It's so frustrating watching this from a country where such government being elected is absolutely impossible lol

@yarpen26

2 жыл бұрын

Which one?

@buddy1155

2 жыл бұрын

North Korea?

@rallysmith6403

2 жыл бұрын

Poland?

@lordpolish2727

2 жыл бұрын

i would never want this coalition of clowns to run my country, lowering the voting age to 16, loosening immigration even further then it already is, going against nuclear power...

@FridolinH

2 жыл бұрын

@@lordpolish2727 polish? Well you should read into nuclear power in germany. It was fased out by the conservatives under Merkel. And how is the voting age of 16 so bad? It might get young people more interested in politics as their voice is finally represented. And saying 16 Yr olds don't know how to make informed decision... I urge you to look at most politicians or all people in general. Most don't know how to do that either. Also teenagers are smarter and more informed than we give them credit for

In the UK even people generally aligned with the FDP view on economics (eg the FT and The Economist) think the debt break is not in Germany's long term economic interests.

Very good and comprhensive explanation. Important because i often read outside germany it's not easy to understand politics within.

Poor color choice at 4:16. Bavaria got CSU (Dark blue or grey) and FW (orange) members in the Bundesrat. But you choose the same color for the CSU in the Bundesrat then for the AfD in the Bundestag, while not dividing CSU & CDU in the Bundestag (both black in your video). Therefore it seams as the AfD would sit in the Bundesrat, wich it clearly doesnt.

@abrakadabra2192

2 жыл бұрын

true

Just a reminder it's not SDP but SPD it stands for Social democratic Party of Germany (Deutschland). Not for Social Democratic Party. And the chancellor I called Scholz not Schulz. Rest was pretty accurate though.

@victor_venema

2 жыл бұрын

And it is Lindner, not Linder. 😊

5:47 This is unacce ptable

I know you're probably doing it for Movemeber, but it does not suit you. Love the work and thank you for breaking it down!

If they ran in Poland I'd sign my ballot with blood I love that programme so muuuch

@michabodnar7739

2 жыл бұрын

Agree

@MrHodoAstartes

2 жыл бұрын

Please do not invalidate your ballot to make a political point. Poland really needs all the progressive votes it can get.

@obrnenydrevokocur9344

2 жыл бұрын

Be careful what you wish for.

@overlord165

2 жыл бұрын

Poland is doing great without the insanity of the progressive's. Please leave Poland alone, you already have all of Western Europe to destroy.

@lightypower3412

2 жыл бұрын

@@overlord165 @Filip Žižak Excuse me? Your words make no sense. Firstly, not "whole west is up for your destruction", because I'm Polish and I want my own country to prosper. Secondly, what "insanity'?! Do you consider limiting government spending, investment into 'green' energy or supporting human rights insane? I don't, rather the opposite. Standing against those is vey short sighted and I'd recommend reconsidering your values free of state propaganda. ~Regards

0:30 Wow - you got SPD right 3:18 and you failed again Edit: 4:16 Lindner not Linder

@user-xu2pi6vx7o

2 жыл бұрын

4:16 Linda?

It will be good too see how they do 1year from now and if opinion polls reflect that

Looks like a winner -- I hope it works.

Hopefully the plans to reform cannabis legalisation will encourage other EU states and with any luck the UK, moving forward. Hopefully it’ll lessen the harm of the laws in Europe.

@Capt.Thunder

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I'm sure you can't wait to legally make yourself stink and waste your life away addling your brain. Cannabis is a cancer on our society, it's like cheering for alcoholism, it's sick and wrong on so many levels.

@Tzar1

2 жыл бұрын

@@Capt.Thunder using force in the war on drugs is obviously not working, so legalising it will allow for more controls on the trade, leading to it being safer and bring in more income for the government

@ihuvvvcuncur2617

2 жыл бұрын

@@Capt.Thunder anything in excess is harmful. Legalising will make sure that people who are consuming cannabis no matter the legality will get clean stuff thus having lesser impact on their health. Futhermore people who are interested on actually living their lives and trying out anything the world has to offer, before it's their time to leave, can actually do it safely. There will be potheads no matter what.

@Capt.Thunder

2 жыл бұрын

@@Tzar1 It's only not working because they refuse to prosecute people who actually have it. If you're not going to bother to actually tackle the problem, then of course it's not going to work. "We have a wasteful policy of only locking up dealers and ignoring the people who carry cannabis, why is it that everyone is still carrying cannabis?" It's so stupid. Japan got rid of it by prosecuting both, there's no excuse, unless you want to be a disgusting cooming degenerate. I don't think they should go to prison for carrying, but even carrying should be punished with a steep fine. It's not acceptable to have such a disgusting habit, it's yet another money sink for poor people to throw their wealth into rather than bettering their lives, a distraction from the world that holds them back from improving themselves, and makes you a gross, disgusting, filthy, smelly person (as if tobacco wasn't bad enough). The threat and frequent enforcement would be enough. The only positive is it can be used for pain relief, but very few people use it for that. I don't mind medical exemptions, but if you're smoking it for any other reason, get bent.

@johnuferbach9166

2 жыл бұрын

@@Capt.Thunder yeah we should also abolish cigarettes, alcohol, cars over 1t, motor cycles, gaming utensils, social media, fashion, sugar, meat, dairy, art... its all useless time and money or health sinks that people waste their life on instead of being productive for their corporate overlords

At first I thought *"16 year olds are easily misinformed and shouldn't vote"* but then I was reminded that people over the age of 70 can vote.

@Sundara229

2 жыл бұрын

Or any one prone to populism for that matter. Remember the brexit campaign? A whole lot of deceptive messages and talks of "national sovereignty", but almost no rational thought given to what all of this even means.

@Vivian-fq8yf

2 жыл бұрын

@@Sundara229 and QAnon

Henrik Heini- Institute, ich schmeiß mich weg😂😅🤣 Having had that name, our famous writer and poet wouldn't have got beyond Peter Pim and Billy Ball in our English school books!

Has anyone from the US bought something from the TLDR store? How expensive was the shipping and how long did it take to come?

If I get a chance to get a Blue Card with my 1 year vocational training and 7+ years of documented experience in the field without the need for Masters then I'm all for it. I mean, I _do_ strongly prefer freelancing in terms of logistics and mental health but there's no way in hell I'll be able to earn enough to qualify for the visa in the next 2,5 years considering the enormous difference in income between EU and developing countries. Ideally, they would also lift the rule where if you're over 40, one of the requirements for the visa becomes providing your own retirement funds ( _totally_ impossible with the difference in income between EU and developing countries), but we don't live in an ideal world, unfortunately.

"Development towards a European Federal State". Ok, that's great.

@CoolMan-ig1ol

2 жыл бұрын

viertes reich muss größer sein

@mapr1049

2 жыл бұрын

@@CoolMan-ig1ol 😂

@advancedomega

2 жыл бұрын

@@CoolMan-ig1ol Ich habe keine Ahnung, ob Sie sarkastisch sind oder nicht.

@duck1ente

2 жыл бұрын

Why would you like a European Federal State? How would Europeans benefit from it? and from what country are you from? (I'm non-European and curious)

@CoolMan-ig1ol

2 жыл бұрын

@@advancedomega Ist das nicht sichtlich? Es ist sarkastisch Ich bin jetzt Wolgadeutscher in Kasachstan und komme nicht aus Deutschland oder Österreich

7:00 I really hope they can make that happen.

It does one's heart good to see a system that actually functions. Politics should be about compromise & cooperation, and it seems that, although we've definitely shifted left, there's a reasonable measure of balance here... as well as necessary focus on what's really important: the people.

Red, green and yellow? Why didn't they call the Portugal 🇵🇹 coalition? 😭

@faultier1158

2 жыл бұрын

Haha, I've already seen a meme about it. Jamaica: Every German knows my flag [CDU/FPD/Greens coaltion is called Jamaica] Bolivia: Everyone calls me traffic light :(

@kasetoast8354

2 жыл бұрын

The name for the traffic-light coalition is older than the others. When it become more and more likely, that 3 parties would need to go together, they came up with all this country names.

2:58 Seeing my country be almost as high as the UK is shameful. Just another display of Poland's extreme reliance on coal.

@mariolis

2 жыл бұрын

The Polish goverment seems to be pushing heavily for Nuclear , so you should be optimistic

@mix3k818

2 жыл бұрын

mariolis1000 I hope they will succeed, but knowing our luck with nuclear it probably won't finalize.

@faultier1158

2 жыл бұрын

@@mariolis Building nuclear plants takes *really* long though. They should massively increase the wind power capacity along side it so that they can start phasing out coal plants earlier.

@arthemis1039

2 жыл бұрын

@@faultier1158 You can also rely on temporary gas plants. Those are made in factories, so pretty quick to setup and much better than coal overall.

Sounds amazing tbh

8:04 in improvement on paper, yes. We'll see in 4 years what really changed.

I'm so happy with this! This may very well be the government Germany needed so badly!

honestly, as a german. i will wait for a year before i judge.

@connectingthedots100

2 жыл бұрын

Correct. This is just a plan. And usually reality throws a spanner in the works.

@kasetoast8354

2 жыл бұрын

"i will wait for a year before i judge." Wise words. You are far ahead of so many people, who already made up their minds, even if the coalition is not even in power.

this makes me very happy indeed

It is an improvement in basically every way, but that's what should be expected.

What they came up with is surprisingly well balanced and swiftly negotiated. The whole process seemed more like a acting coalition that negotiated a continuation rather than a first time affair (in federal politics). I do suspect, that party leaders wanted to show a positive contrast to the largely toxic political discourse all over the world. I also think that all involved were willing to make compromises out of party political considerations. For the SPD it helps them get some distance from the excruciating days of "ye olde grande coalition" where although they achieved a lot of their political goals, the credit went squarely to "Mutti". For the Greens it means finally governing again after a very long draught. And for the FDP it means having a raison d'être... after being little more than a single topic (tax cuts) appendix to the CDU... which ultimately got them kicked out of parliament by the voters. Let's hope it all holds up and they don't decend into bickering in order to "sharpen the party profile". But regardless of party politics it all seems optimistic (in a positive sense) and future oriented. Just what the country (and the EU) needs.

@marioluigi9599

2 жыл бұрын

Swiftly negotiated = parties swiftly going against their manifesto promises and then working out the real agenda in the proverbial smoke-filled backrooms away from the public.... most of which was already decided many months beforehand in secret away from the public anyway, hence this quick "negotiation". = German "democracy"

@marioluigi9599

2 жыл бұрын

So Germany is actually a good example of a political system with elites running the country, feigning at true representation, deciding for themselves "what's best for the country", and not giving any one particular individual what he/she actually voted for. Think of the China political system. It's a bit like that, just not as bad and not as communistical. Unlike China, there is of course DEMOCRACY in Germany... ... however, a lot of that is feigned and exercised through a mountain of bureaucracy and elitism (think "Beamte"), and also an underlying communistical tendency where everyone is expected to sacrifice part of themselves for everyone else. That's the reality of modern German politics. And don't think parties that haven't been in government for years like the greens will be any better. Every party in the system knows what the system is and plays it well.

@marioluigi9599

2 жыл бұрын

As I see it, a real WORKING democracy in any country can only be achieved in two ways: ...EITHER a Westminster style first-past-the-post system where the winning party will usually win less than 50% of the electorate, but will gain (most of the time) more than 50% of the parliament by the democratic legitimacy of the general election and of the voting system. That way, the winning party is able to run the government executive (and the country) by themselves, and easily fulfill ALL their manifesto promises. By having "broad church" parties, this system produces a powerful executive that's still held to account by parliament, including by its own party members. ...OR if you don't like that voting system, you can have whatever proportional voting system you like, BUT you will need a separately elected head of government. This is to give additional democratic legitimacy to a single-party executive cabinet, to allow them to fulfill their party manifesto promises to the country. HOWEVER, the problem with elected executives is government deadlocks/shutdowns (as in the American system), which will always happen in separated powers system because they are weaker separated, but will not happen in the Westminster system. Frustrations to governance like government shutdowns are a SERIOUS problem when it comes to fulfilling election promises. So if you STILL WANT a separately elected head of government, but you DON'T WANT the first past-the-post voting system, you will have to work out a better way for the executive to be able to pass laws without the parliament frustrating the executive.

@marioluigi9599

2 жыл бұрын

Here is my suggestion for a better political system for Germany. First of all, it would be NOT to follow any French Montesquieu template, which completely separate the legislative and executive powers. This is a really bad French idea because the reality is, the two political branches of government need each other in daily business. Separating them will inevitably cause power struggles. So for a better system, I would propose a parliamentary system where parliament is sovereign and the executive derives its power from it (as is currently the case in Germany). However, the executive would attain its own democratic legitimacy, meaning there will be two elections during each election period. First you hold the general election for the parliament. Then you allow (only) the 1st and 2nd place party winners from that election to put both their chosen party leaders forward as two candidates for the second election. The party leader who wins this second election will become chancellor (head of government) and will win his party enough additional votes in parliament to make up the 50%+1 needed for a majority. Because of the separate democratic legitimacy he gains from this second election, he also gains the right to choose members for his cabinet who are NOT also members of parliament. Anyone he can justify as being suitable really. Note: The winner of this executive election does NOT PERSONALLY win the votes in parliament (he's not a president). He only wins the votes for his party. That way he can be later removed from office by his own party if they decide to choose a new leader for themselves, like when he does a bad job at governing and loses the confidence of the party or of the parliament. This is what makes him different to a president/head of state who cannot be easily removed at all and can become dictatorial. ("No one man should have all that power" - very important idea). As for the individual parties choosing a candidate to be their leader... those can be chosen separately before the general election by members of the public who have also become members of the respective party (if the party decides to run itself in that way, but this should not be an obligation on any party. Every party has the right to present itself to the public for votes in any way that it likes). So that's my idea for a better democratic system than the elitist crap that Germany has at the moment. Mine is a system where one party wins and actually fulfills all the party promises that it made, instead of just some stupid coalition of parties creating their own muddled up "negotiated" agenda of policy points, which were NEVER agreed to as a whole, democratically by the public. This practice in Germany is completely anti-democratic I should also mention that under my system there would still be some head of state for the country (as in, a president), to do such things as signing bills into laws, holding elections, appointing cabinet members who were chosen by the Chancellor, heading the military (as chief), and dissolving the houses of parliament. I don't care very much about how he's elected, but he should have some democratic legitimacy that will give him some (limited) executive powers, more than just the pointless ceremonial ones. For example, he should be the one who will officially hold the elections for HIS government. As such, the elected chancellor will report to the head of state every week to explain how he is working to fulfill his election promises to the country. If the head of state sees the head of government or any appointed cabinet members as failing in their duties to the public, he has the right to dimiss them from his government. The president should be party neutral and making no statements supporting any one party viewpoint over another. He would follow conventions of respect, patience and tolerance as expected from someone in his capacity. He should serve at the behest of the body that elects him. That way, if he were to abuse his power, he could be easily removed in dishonour. And one technical point: Even though the executive derives its democratic legitimacy from the election of its head, it is not sovereign - only the parliament is sovereign (including the president, as an integral part of the parliament). This means the executive cannot govern except by consent of parliament (given to the Chancellor by the president). However, since the executive is a separate government institution, it can continue to run the country under the president in the way that it was elected to do, even whilst the houses of parliament are dissolved awaiting new elections. The executive is not able to introduce any new legislation during this time without the consent of the houses parliament. That's my idea. JUST ONE THING PLEEEASE: WHETHER YOU AGREE OR DISAGREE, WHATEVER SYSTEM YOU CHOOSE, DON'T MAKE IT THE FRENCH SYSTEM!! (Fifth republic and still not functioning: The French President, an elected king with a prime minister and a rubber stamp parliament as his servants ...Either that or with a rebellious prime minister and parliament, in a cohabitation deadlock nightmare government) Garbage system, seriously. Hardly any democracy at all. Much worse than the German one

@franzkissel1369

2 жыл бұрын

Nice comment. Laughed my ass of at "ye olde grande coalition"

A good development in the EU.

@adoscz9812

2 жыл бұрын

I just think EU should stop expanding for while and focus on itself. Also world without nuclears and low emission at the same time is unreal for now. It must be mix of renewables, nuclear and natural gas.

@shamusson

2 жыл бұрын

EU tyranny expands

@adoscz9812

2 жыл бұрын

@@shamusson Le Pen is nacionalistic right winger. I thought you french were not happy under Moustache Man. You probably miss what your grandparents had to come through. But you are not the one affected, so you dont care. France without EU is like done, they would leave EU, had AUKUS on other side and would be left alone. No money and resources and there would be probably another french crisis like 90 years ago. You would probably have to s**k Russia and China.

@shamusson

2 жыл бұрын

@@adoscz9812 Zemmour sounds more based tbh than Le Pen. Also can openly recognize the soulless nature of the EU without the media being able to do shit about it. The EU has been used to justify a progressive ideological takeover of Europe, at this point its only a matter of time until it runs Europe off a cliff, especially in Western Europe.

@adoscz9812

2 жыл бұрын

@@shamusson Yes you can critize EU, because EU isnt Russia or China.

Yes.

Any mentions of the paragraph 218 219a in the coalition Vertrag?

@muskoxi9886

2 жыл бұрын

About 218 i dont know, but 219a will be completlt removed what made me pretty happy ^^. (219a is a paragraph that forbids doctors to right on their website etc that they do abortions)

Linder not Linder. Also AGAIN SPD not SDP. This shit is killing me

@kasetoast8354

2 жыл бұрын

"Also AGAIN SPD not SDP." I begin to think, they do this on purpose ;)

I (German, M18) am very pleased with the Traffic Light Coalition Contract / Results. For a bit of context: I have voted SPD, and I my second choice would have been Greens and FDP third which matches the election results and the now negotiated / formed coalition. There are only a few things where I would have wished for a different result: - "Kein Tempolimit" ("no speed limit on highways"): It is an emotional topic for both the right and left in Germany. Even though I support it, I don't think it should be deal breaker for anyone, because there are simply more importat issues than that. - A referendum may be a good way to settle the debate? - "Beibehalten der Schwarzen Null" ("no new debt") & "Keine Reichen- und Vermögenssteuer" ("no higher top income taxes nor taxation on people with a lot of property / capital): I support both reasonable amounts of debt (over the next few years) and higher taxation for more investment in digitalization, education, green projects and infrastructure. They have found a middle ground though in cutting and relocating spending as well as expanding credits and investment through the federal investment and development bank (KfW) etc., and this was afterall a red line for the FDP. - No real reform of the DB (/ the railway system): It really needs it. At this point, I do not care anymore if it gets completely nationalized again or privatized; the current system does neither capture the benefits of competition nor public accesibility. - The Defence Ministry going to the SPD: I would have liked to see it go to the FDP, or more precisely to Strack-Zimmermann. She has been a very productive and constructive member of the opposition over the last four years. Additionally, parts of the SPD's left wing have turned oddly pacifist over the years, or how I would call it: "trying to cut the military's capabilities (especially when it comes to equipment) and by that endagering the soldiers. - The Foreign Ministry going to Baerbock: Her foreign policy is more idealistic than the last administrations' which I, as an (self-proclaimed) realist, broadly supported. At last, I want to thank Merkel for her 16 years of service, and I hope the Union (CDU/CSU) is able to renew itself. Conservatives in this country need a functional political home and the AFD (a far-right extremist party) should defintially not be it. Reader, thank you for your time, and what do you think?

@abrakadabra2192

2 жыл бұрын

Speedlimit is stupid, its an emotional issue that would not change anything.

@TheAlja

2 жыл бұрын

I would have prefered an election outcome that led to a Green/Red or green led Trafficlight coalition. I wish the FDP would play a more minor part if at all, i am fine with them in defence and justice, but thats about it. I don't like them to have any say in financial issues. I would have preferred a green chancellor but a SPD foreign minister. I think Baerbock might not be the right person for that job. I hope she will at least be real with China and Russia, but i also would love to see some more european emancipation when it comes to the US. And i doubt that will happen, in fact, i fear Baerbock might turn out to be a US bootlicker. I am really glad about the plans to get out of fossil fuels earlier, i think one of the worst things the former administration did was to end nuclear power without having renewables up to take over. Fossil Fuels were used to fill the energy gap and we need to get out of that asap. I am very happy about the changes to social politics when it comes to gender and family, more acceptance and rights for lgtbq+ people and patchwork families and the removal of that anti abortion-ads paragraph. §219b i think. The 12€ min wage is too low, but at least it moves in the right direction. Without FDP more would have been possible. Overall, all the bad aspects of capitalism still will be mostly ignored. I am curious to see what will happen in that field. But i think this might be the toughest to figure out for the coallition. When it comes to wealth distribution, poverty and retirement stuff, there isn't that much in there yet.

@philipkoene5345

2 жыл бұрын

Very detailed, rational and well presented analysis - impressive, if you really are just 18. Not much to add. I am a bit disappointed, that the "Bürgerversicherung", so the abolishing of private health insurance was no longer an issue in this election campaign. But I guess that would anyway have been another red line for the FDP.

@Jonas_M_M

2 жыл бұрын

@@philipkoene5345, it is for sure a red line for the FDP both from an ideological and a pracmatic perspective. - A lot of FDP voter-base are most likely privately insured due to their statisticly above average education, income and number of sole trader owners. This issue will have its time in the spotline soon enough - maybe even next election - as it is a not time sensative topic. There is no reason to expect that health insurance / the healthcare system nor the more broad topic of goods destribution will be irrelevant in the near or even far future. I'm torn on the issue, but as long as "die gesetzlichen Krankenkassen" cover enough for a reasonable fee and the healthcare system is overall open for reasonable and regulated private investment and entrepreneurship, I am fine.

@philipkoene5345

2 жыл бұрын

@@Jonas_M_M I am voluntarily in the statutory health insurance - and I am sure, that I am not the only one. It might be a red line for the FDP, but the current system is just stupid in my opinion. Privately insured people get offered optional treatments, that they don't really need and statutory insured people have to take a backseat in terms of getting an appointment. The only people that really benefit are the insurers themselves and the medical practices that cater towards privately insured patients. Let's have a statutory health insurance for all and then there is still room for added private insurance, for people that want to pay extra for it. Stuff like single room in hospitals, guaranteed treatment by the leading physician, extra dental, added diagnostic blood work and so on. Heck, I might even go for some of those.

Fan of your movember moustache, btw

I'm actually curious how much the brexit colouring book have grown since it was originally printed. How many editions have TLDR made?

2:55 "the worst CO2 emissions in the EU" 2nd is the UK. Did I miss something?

@jerry9548

2 жыл бұрын

Maybe Brexit took a confusing turn again and we missed something? :D

Canabis legalization Germany: welcome new high value tourism 😂 🤪

@todortodorov940

2 жыл бұрын

No, you can buy this anyway in many countries. It just removes the incentive to sell it illegally, removing the income for many criminals (both German and illegal immigrants) and instead channeling those profits into the government and at the end into society. Additionally, it provides little more protection to the consumer.

@pami333

2 жыл бұрын

Actually, cannabis tourism is even considered in the re-evaluated study mentioned here and coming to the result that legalising would bring 4.7 billion €. But if I remember right they only calculated the actual sales of cannabis to foreigners, not additional benefits like actual tourism, meaning people might stay a few days in hostels or hotels, and of course the massive increase in food sales for all the hungry stoners :D

@charlesmartel2167

2 жыл бұрын

this is what we call a false great idea, just look at the consequences in netherlands and Canada.

@lachlantaylor1225

2 жыл бұрын

@@charlesmartel2167 the consequences of the current drug laws are far far far worse, it is naive to think that hammering the same old gavel in the same old way will do anything different. Legalisation protects individuals as consumers but also local street crime as a whole.

@lachlantaylor1225

2 жыл бұрын

@@todortodorov940 also doesn’t take into account home-based sale to native Germans as well as the reductions in policing costs, and all the add-ons of that, the savings/profits can be even greater!

It’s not the SDP, but the SPD. BTW, nuclear is not cheap. It’s actually one of the most expensive powers overall.

@Jajalaatmaar

2 жыл бұрын

Unless you already have the freaking reactors.

Fantastic trio, would like a lot the same for Italy but people don't like greens and libs here...

Imagine if every single country legalised weed and 100% of those profit went to fighting climate change

@shamusson

2 жыл бұрын

The streets would be filled with potheads

@frankeke8541

2 жыл бұрын

I prefer potheads over crackheads

@hinken3716

2 жыл бұрын

@@frankeke8541 potheads lead to crackheads

@frankeke8541

2 жыл бұрын

@@hinken3716 ok boomer

@hinken3716

2 жыл бұрын

@@frankeke8541 im 18

1:32 TLDR should do a video on the implications of reducing voter age to 16 and not just for Germany but for other major countries including India and USA.

@alexseguin5245

2 жыл бұрын

Implications are probably negligible.

@tobin9575

2 жыл бұрын

yeah i mean the population of 16-18 is if i recall close to 1-3% of the entire nation, the impact is very very small in the whole scheme of things.

@abhigyanbg5764

2 жыл бұрын

@@alexseguin5245 yes, young people don't even wan't to vote.

@Otzkar

2 жыл бұрын

@@abhigyanbg5764 disagree

@MrXxHunter

2 жыл бұрын

@@abhigyanbg5764 In German politics that statement doesn’t hold any water especially looking at the FDP and Green votes.

I feel like the ban on the sale of new combustion engines is a lot bigger deal than you make it out to be in the video

Amazing program. Not 100% perfect but as a french citizen and very pro eu person, I am happy to see this

All I heard in the video sounds amazing, lets if it becomes reality or just more talking.

this is a coalition I like

The changes seem reasonable

I'm genuinely happy to see that result, although one of course should keep in mind the non binding nature of it all. Coalition agreements are always rosy.

@Luca-sz5uy

2 жыл бұрын

they will be absolutly annhilated by the press and opposition if they don't get going. also by me :)

I noticed that the graph you showed while saying that Germany has the worst CO2 emissions in the EU included Britain. I understand that choice since you are UK based, but imo Britain should have been shown separately since you did compare EU countries not European countries and as you know UK is not part of the EU.

As a dutchman, I'm cringing at my country's lax attitude towards politics. The election was past Februari... and we still don't have a new government. At this rate, it's gonna take so long to form a new government that the elections will just be held again in four years.

@victor_venema

2 жыл бұрын

Germany only has 6-7 parties in the Bundestag. It was easier.

Great video! Alter freue ich mich auf den ersten legalen bubatz schön von Lidl

@pami333

2 жыл бұрын

Öhm, Lidl dürfte kein lizenziertes Fachgeschäft mit Zutritt ab 18 werden... ;) Aber ich bin auch mal gespannt, wie schnell das jetzt umgesetzt wird... Leider fehlt ja der legale Eigenanbau

@KhaalixD

2 жыл бұрын

​@@pami333 Na ja in den Koalitionsvertrag steht aber nichts vom Fachgeschäft oder von ab 18 beträten nur von einer Lizenz, also wehre ja Lidl noch eine möglichkeit. Kommt ja nachher auf das gesetzt an aber die werde bestimmt das von den grünen kopieren (obwohl die FDP/SPD letztes mal nicht dafür war) und dann hättest du ja recht :p

Seems like a generally good set of policies outside of being anti nuclear

German CO2 emissions are higher because it is a bigger country. It is actually number 10 per capita and also already has the highest percentag of renewables among the big European countries.

@coolbanana165

2 жыл бұрын

It's also higher, as explained, because of getting rid of nuclear energy, which is a pretty stupid and destructive idea. If anything nuclear energy should be increased. That's why France's CO2 emissions are so low.

@tobiwan001

2 жыл бұрын

@@coolbanana165 nuclear energy is - for good reasons - seen more critically in Germany than elsewhere. Obviously being a nuclear flashpoint, Chernobyl and being downwind from France are the main reasons. But I can see your point. Most of the CO2 emissions now come from the two lignite coal plants. Btw, emissions are also higher because Germany is a net exporter of energy and also because it has a bigger manufacturing sector.

@NiekNooijens

2 жыл бұрын

@@tobiwan001 Everybody always uses Chernobyl and Fukushima as excuse for being against nuclear, but those are literally the only 2 disasters ever happened, where 1 was with a poorly designed outdated reactor and 2 was because of a crazy natural disaster! That these 2 incidents are literally the only incidents which happened with nuclear power for over 50 years should actually be an argument FOR nuclear power, not against it!

@StarryNightGazing

2 жыл бұрын

@@tobiwan001 lol they're not good reasons.

@StarryNightGazing

2 жыл бұрын

Check out France's emission statistics then come tell me about your renewables.

The entire German election cycle and government formation took place entirely within the Dutch coalition negotiation

@philipkoene5345

2 жыл бұрын

To be fair - this was unexpectedly smooth for German standards as well

What about the autobahn?

I’m personally really excited about the traffic light coalition