🇩🇪 1st anniversary of the Ampel coalition 🚦

[Clarko95 📚💰📈]

3.5 Ampels, and yes.

I am pleasantly surprised at how many important laws have been passed in just the first year, and many reforms that are desperately needed have been either enacted (e.g. the drive to get 80% of electricity from renewables by 2030, ending the policy of deliberate wage suppression, improvements to childcare centers, rebuilding Germany's defense, pensions, housing benefits, unemployment reforms, etc.) or set in motion (e.g. immigration & citizenship reform, transportation policy, etc.). It's a major change from 16 years of the CDU-led governments that basically seemed hellbent on keeping Germany frozen in time in 2005. This progress is despite all the delays, infighting, and disagreements that have been happening.

Of course, foreign policy has been the big disappointment here. While Germany has delivered a lot of material aid and taken in over 1 million refugees, there have been too many delays regarding the energy situation and the full potential of Germany's ability to provide aid has not been exploited, as has already been mentioned. This needs to change ASAP.

I am cautiously optimistic that the FDP will not pull out before 2025. Probably like 2010-2013, they will just accept bouncing around the 4-5% level and try to get as much of their agenda through and hope that it's enough to survive when they have to face the voters again.