Coalition negotiations: The "thick clumps" are on the note

Union and SPD continue their coalition negotiations at the CDU headquarters in Berlin.

The pension will remain at the top of the coalition negotiations – especially on the question of how it will be calculated and financed in the future.

It goes on in a big round: Union and SPD sit together again. According to CSU Landegruppen head Dobrindt, it is about the issues on which there is still no agreement. Nevertheless, there is fundamental optimism. By Georg Schütte.

The German Association of Towns and Municipalities hopes for a rapid agreement on a coalition agreement and advocates not proceeding too fragmentedly. "The CDU, CSU, and SPD should quickly reach agreement on the last remaining issues," said General Secretary André Berghegger to the "Tagesspiegel" (Sunday edition). "The people of our country, but also the municipalities, expect that, in view of the numerous international and national challenges, …

The coalition negotiations are still under way, but we are already eagerly speculating. Who from BW has the chance to become a minister? Our reporter went on a search for traces at the federal press ball.

In the coalition negotiations of Schwarz-Rot, the AfD draws on the same thing in a survey with the Union. Before the start of a new round of negotiations, leading Union politicians still show optimism.CSU head Alexander Dobrindt sees a lot of willingness to agree with the participants at the black-red coalition negotiations in Berlin. "Today we bow over the thick clumps, that is, those issues that are not agreed now," he said in the morning when…