German Chancellor Olaf Scholz fires Finance Minister Christian Lindner

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******* Chancellor Olaf Scholz fires Finance Minister ********** Lindner

******* Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Finance Minister ********** Lindner in the Bundestag on June 26, 2024 in Berlin, Germany.

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Chancellor Olaf Scholz announced Wednesday he had dismissed Finance Minister ********** Lindner, possibly bringing an end to Germany’s ruling coalition after months of political wrangling.

The three-year-old union between Scholz’s Social Democratic Party (SPD), the Greens and Lindner’s Free Democratic Party (****) has been on shaky ground for some time, with differing budget and economic policy positions causing tensions and clashes. It wasn’t immediately clear if Lindner’s departure would lead to the **** exiting the coalition.

The situation had been coming to a head in recent weeks, with speculation about a potential break up of the coalition ramping up earlier in the week.

That came after a series of moves from the three parties, including a paper by Lindner of the **** that outlined his vision to revive the ******* economy — crucially, however, by arguing against fundamental positions of the SPD and Green party.

“The paper reads like a serious attempt to analyze Germany’s problems and propose solutions. However, it argues against fundamental SPD and Green positions and will therefore be hard for them to accept,” Greg Fuzesi, euro area economist at JPMorgan, said in a research note Monday.

The parties have also been struggling to agree upon a 2025 budget, which still had a funding gap of several billions of euros and was still being negotiated. The deadline for the budget was set for later this month.

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