‘Serious about European solidarity’ or fiscal hawks? Germany’s SPD-led coalition government and the reform of the European Union’s Stability and Growth Pact
Renewal - ISSN 0968-5211
Volume 31 Number 4 (2023)
‘Serious about European solidarity’ or fiscal hawks? Germany’s SPD-led coalition government and the reform of the European Union’s Stability and Growth Pact
Isabelle Hertner pages 47‑55
Abstract
Germany’s Social Democratic Party had a ‘typically’ centre-left agenda for the European Union’s fiscal reform ahead of the 2021 federal elections. Yet the SPD’s Chancellor Olaf Scholz is a centrist pragmatist and now rules in a three-party coalition where competence for European policy is dispersed. EU fiscal reform has seemingly been delegated to the liberal-conservative Finance Minister Christian Lindner whose fiscally hawkish proposals are at loggerheads with the European Commission, France, Italy – and some of the leading voices inside the SPD and Green Party.
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Isabelle Hertner (2023) ‘Serious about European solidarity’ or fiscal hawks? Germany’s SPD-led coalition government and the reform of the European Union’s Stability and Growth Pact, Renewal, 31(4), 47-55