Angela Merkel and Sigmar Gabriel in voting in the Bundestag.
Greek conditions prevail not in the Bundestag. The federal government was, as expected, does not depend on the support of the opposition, in order to obtain the necessary mandate for negotiations on a third aid package for Greece. Three quarters of the members of parliament present, including 85 percent of the deputies of the grand coalition, approved the course of the government. In the ranks of the Union, however, the gnashing of teeth was so loud that the Berlin dentists have probably push this weekend extra shifts. In the bourgeois camp believed less and less in mind that Greece can be saved to the previously only briefly of success winning ways. In the constituencies Me Angry on Greeks and critics from other nations high, answer the unprecedented solidarity with unprecedented abuse.
And yet resisted only one though further grown, but not dangerously large group of Union Representatives asking the chancellor and her finance minister, to open the way for further negotiations with Athens. Because in parliament was not only voted on the future of Greece, but also on the future of the chancellor and the grand coalition. But who shoots when the cart is in the dirt, even his draft horse?
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Merkel holds in the Greek crisis on the single line in both the euro group and in its coalition was willing to compromise and enforceable. Many Socialists set out the concept of international solidarity is still significantly more than the medium-sized company from Lower Saxony or the Swabian housewife. The “bad cop” Schäuble but brought his Grexit threat not only Athens to agree stringent conditions, but also the SPD, even closed to rally behind Merkel as their own party. In the Bundestag he got for his hardness of the Union applause lasting several minutes. As strong as now his position in the CDU was long gone.
Schäuble can afford to reveal more clearly than Merkel, how much now plaguing him the doubt that the Greeks could be helped in this way, therefore, still. Or should serve the mainly aiming to keep the pressure high? Negotiations with Greece are yet to come. And only after the crucial vote comes in the Bundestag.
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