Long negotiations between the Christian-Democratic Union, the Social-Democratic Party, and the Greens on major investments in infrastructure and amendments to the constitution for ensuring expenditures through borrowing have concluded. The future ruling coalition of the CDU and Social-Democrats will rely on the support of the Greens.
Statements from the leader of the CDU Friedrich Merz in the newspaper Bild am Sonntag indicate his intention to take climate protection seriously should he be elected chancellor. Merz stated that he would be "a chancellor who will not turn green in a political sense but will be responsible for ecological accountability."
