The Scholz government is heating up the engines: sovereign Europe, legalized cannabis and 16-year-olds vote

Countdown to the debut of the new German government as a result of the agreement between Social Democrats, Greens and Liberals.

The chancellor ready to take over from Angela Merkel is Olaf Scholz, outgoing Economy Minister and leader of the SPD.

From what transpires in Bild and other German newspapers, the liberal Christian Lindner will go to the Ministry of Finance, while the head of the Greens Robert Habeck will have a super ministry that will unite Economy and Climate. Again: to the co-president of ecologists Annalena Baerbock the foreign ministry. The SPD would also retain the Ministry of Health, which is very delicate given the Covid pandemic.

According to rumors, the contract of the future German government provides, among other things, to extend the right to vote in the European and federal elections to minors aged 16 (but for this we will need the support of the opposition) and "the controlled delivery of cannabis "to adults.

The "traffic light" coalition also wants "a more sovereign Europe". Chancellor in pectore Olaf Scholz said this, presenting the coalition contract of the future German government. "Promote, push and carry forward European sovereignty" will be ours task, added Angela Merkel's successor.

(Unioneonline / lf)