Scholz cabinet

Scholz cabinet

24th Cabinet of the Federal Republic of Germany
Incumbent
Date formed8 December 2021
(2 years, 4 months, 1 week and 3 days)
People and organisations
PresidentFrank-Walter Steinmeier
ChancellorOlaf Scholz
Vice ChancellorRobert Habeck
Member partiesSocial Democratic Party
Alliance 90/The Greens
Free Democratic Party
Status in legislatureTraffic light coalition
417 / 736 (57%)
Opposition partiesChristian Democratic Union
Christian Social Union
Alternative for Germany
The Left
Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht
Opposition leaderRalph Brinkhaus (CDU) (2021–2022)
Friedrich Merz (CDU) (from 2022)
History
Election(s)2021 federal election
Legislature term(s)20th Bundestag
PredecessorMerkel IV

The Scholz cabinet (German: Kabinett Scholz, pronounced [kabiˈnɛt ʃɔlt͡s] ⓘ) is the current cabinet of Germany, led by Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz. The cabinet is composed of Scholz's Social Democratic Party, Alliance 90/The Greens and the Free Democratic Party, an arrangement known as a "traffic light coalition" in Germany after the parties' traditional colours, respectively red, green and yellow, matching the colours of a traffic light (Ampel). This traffic light coalition-government is the first of its kind at the federal level in the history of the German federal republic.

Following the 2021 German federal election, the three parties reached a coalition agreement on 24 November 2021.[1][2] The SPD approved the coalition agreement by 98.8% (598 yes-votes to 7 no-votes and 3 abstentions) at the party's federal convention on 4 December 2021.[3][4] The FDP approved the coalition agreement by 92.24% (535 yes-votes to 37 no-votes and 8 abstentions) at the party's federal convention on 5 December 2021.[5] The Greens approved the agreement via a party-wide referendum, the results of which were declared on 6 December (61,174 yes-votes to 8,275 no-votes and 1,701 abstentions).[6][7]

The opposition Christian Democrats can veto important laws (Zustimmungsgesetze) via their Bundesrat seats. They thus form a de facto fourth power in the coalition. The traffic light coalition has therefore been likened to a "Zimbabwe coalition", according to Zimbabwe's flag (red, green, and yellow, plus black for the Christian Democrats).[8] The Christian Democrats used their veto, for example, to preserve sanctions in Germany's unemployment benefit reform (Bürgergeld).[9]

In 2023, a mid-term review of the coalition agreement's implementation found that compared to the preceding grand coalition (Merkel IV), the traffic light government had achieved 38 instead of 53 per cent of its coalition promises, which is proportionally less, but with 174 instead of 154 fulfilled promises, it had actually achieved somewhat more in absolute terms. This applies to the government's major reform projects as well as to smaller government projects.[10]

Scholz was elected as Chancellor by the Bundestag on 8 December 2021.[11] His cabinet, as determined by the coalition agreement, was formally appointed by President Frank-Walter Steinmeier on the same day.

Composition

The cabinet consists of Chancellor Olaf Scholz and sixteen federal ministers.[12] The SPD has eight positions, the Greens have five and the FDP has four.[13]

Order[14] Office Portrait Minister Party Took office Left office
1
Chancellor 		Olaf Scholz SPD 8 December 2021 Incumbent
2 Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck Greens 8 December 2021 Incumbent

Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Climate Action
3
Federal Minister of Finance 		Christian Lindner FDP 8 December 2021 Incumbent
4
Federal Minister of the Interior and Community 		Nancy Faeser SPD 8 December 2021 Incumbent
5
Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs 		Annalena Baerbock Greens 8 December 2021 Incumbent
6
Federal Minister of Justice 		Marco Buschmann FDP 8 December 2021 Incumbent
7
Federal Minister of Labour and Social Affairs 		Hubertus Heil SPD 14 March 2018 Incumbent
8
Federal Minister of Defence 		Christine Lambrecht SPD 8 December 2021 19 January 2023
Boris Pistorius SPD 19 January 2023 Incumbent
9
Federal Minister of Food and Agriculture 		Cem Özdemir Greens 8 December 2021 Incumbent
10
Federal Minister for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth 		Anne Spiegel Greens 8 December 2021 25 April 2022
Lisa Paus 25 April 2022 Incumbent
11
Federal Minister of Health 		Karl Lauterbach SPD 8 December 2021 Incumbent
12
Federal Minister of Digital and Transport 		Volker Wissing FDP 8 December 2021 Incumbent
13
Federal Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection 		Steffi Lemke Greens 8 December 2021 Incumbent
14
Federal Minister of Education and Research 		Bettina Stark-Watzinger FDP 8 December 2021 Incumbent
15
Federal Minister for Economic Cooperation and Development 		Svenja Schulze SPD 8 December 2021 Incumbent
16
Federal Minister for Housing, Urban Development and Building 		Klara Geywitz SPD 8 December 2021 Incumbent
17
Federal Minister for Special Affairs &
Head of the Chancellery 		Wolfgang Schmidt SPD 8 December 2021 Incumbent

Policy

Project Scope Stage
BAföG expansion In force
Housing benefits threshold lowering In force
49-Euro-Ticket Ticket to ride regional transport in all of Germany Started sale 1 May 2023
Long-term care expansion and payroll tax increase Tax increase from 1.7% to 2.4% of income In force since 1 July 2023
Abolition of § 219a Allowing medics to inform about abortion services they provide In force 19 July 2022
Animal Husbandry Labelling Pig meat that is both produced and sold in Germany In force 24 August 2023

Economy and energy

Following Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the Scholz government passed a gas rationing law, under the leadership of economy minister Robert Habeck (Greens).[15] In August 2022, a major expansion of the BAföG system of government grants and loans for students and trainees was introduced, fulfilling a key FDP government program plank.[16] The largest housing benefits reform since 1965 will come into effect on January 1, 2023, with the number of households entitled to receive the benefits increasing from 600,000 in 2022 to over 2 million in 2023, and the allowances for heating and cooling more than doubling.[17] The Traffic Light coalition also agreed on a major 200 billion Euro energy relief package in October 2022, to come into effect starting in January 2023 and running through mid-2024.[18] The government announced a gas price capping scheme called Gaspreisbremse for 2023.[19]

In response to alleged price-gouging and excess profits during the energy and inflation crisis of 2022-2023, the federal government expanded the powers of the Federal Cartel Office in July 2023. The FCO was granted the ability to take action if there was a significant disruption in market competition, irrespective of a specific breach in antitrust law.[20] Also the requirement that the FCO identify the size of the benefit obtained by a company for violating antitrust law before being able to fine the firm's excess profits was removed.[21]

Labour

In August 2022, the Bundestag implemented Amendments to the Proof Act (Nachweisgesetz or NachwG), which implemented the EU Directive on Working Conditions. The amendments obligate employers to provide detailed information about working conditions to their employees, and employment contracts must explicitly state employment terms, conditions, and benefits.[22]

In October 2022, the minimum wage was increased to 12 Euros per hour, fulfilling a key SPD election campaign promise.[23] In November, the Scholz government introduced the Bürgergeld ("Citizens Money"), a long-term unemployment benefits reform to replace Hartz IV.[24] Hartz IV was the unemployment benefits system implemented under SPD Chancellor Gerhard Schröder in 2003 as part of the Agenda 2010 reform package; since 2018, the SPD has disowned the Hartz reforms and sought a new system that increases unemployment benefits and is less punitive towards the long-term unemployed, which the Bürgergeld system accomplishes.[25] The reform also sought to address the skills gap in Germany, with Bürgergeld recipients being entitled to additional money during vocational training.[23] The new system came into effect in January 2023, after reaching a compromise with the opposition CDU/CSU in the Bundesrat.[26]

Transport

In its first year, the Scholz government introduced the 9-Euro-Ticket in summer 2022. The transport ministry, led by Volker Wissing (Free Democrats), failed to prepare an adequate plan to meet emissions reduction targets in the transport sector in summer 2022.[27] However, in October 2022, the federal government and the states agreed to implement a nationwide 49 Euro per month public transport ticket, which will apply to all local and regional transit across the country and eliminate the previous maze of tariff zones starting in 2023. The 49-Euro ticket came into effect on May 1st, 2023.[28]

Healthcare and long-term care policy

In February 2022, Federal Health Minister Karl Lauterbach (SPD) announced a 1 billion Euro special fund to pay tax-free bonuses to eldercare and hospital staff who worked during the COVID-19 pandemic. 500 million Euros are earmarked for hospital staff and the other 500 million are for eldercare staff.[29] Under Lauterbach, the vaccination ratio stagnated at 75% (as of August 2022).[30]

In June 2023, a major expansion of the long-term care was implemented. The reform increased allowances for at-home caregivers to between 332 – 946 Euros per month and introduced a new annual flexible budget for caregivers. To fund the estimated costs of 6.6 billion Euros per year, the payroll tax for long-term care was increased from 1.7% to 2.4% in a graduated scale based upon the number of children an employee has.[31]

Social policy

In June 2022, the SPD, Greens, FDP, and Die Linke voted to repeal Paragraph Section 219a of the Criminal Code, which outlawed the so-called "advertisement" of abortion services (a legal term). The paragraph had prohibited doctors from specifying online which kinds of abortion services they provide, and under what circumstances.[32]

In June 2023, new amendments strengthening hate crime legislation in the Criminal Code regarding sexual orientation and gender-specific crimes were introduced by Justice Minister Marco Buschmann and ratified by the Bundestag:

  • Harsher penalties for femicide, and new rules taking into account motives stemming from patriarchal claims of ownership and misogyny.
  • Expansion of rehabilitation-focused treatment for those in need of treatment and willing to be treated. New focus on keeping violent offenders from using rehab centers as a way of getting out of stricter punishment, with the goal of taking pressure off of the rehab centers, and preventing dangerous addicted offenders from being released due to lack of treatment places.
  • Reform of substitute prison sentences for unpaid fines to take pressure off the prison system. Determination of fines incorporating socioeconomic status (e.g. income, poverty, unemployment, homelessness or mental illness) and ability for fines to be paid in installments or substituted for unpaid community work.[33][citation needed]

Refugees, and asylum policy

In 2022, more than 1.4 million refugees from Ukraine arrived in Germany, in addition to 244,000 asylum applications being filed. In 2022, over 28 billion Euros were spent on refugees and asylum seekers by the federal government; 15 billion Euros were given as aid to states and municipalities, while 13 billion Euros were spent as foreign aid). In the first four months of 2023, more than 101,000 asylum applications were filed, and the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees estimated that asylum applications could exceed 300,000 in 2023.[34]

Municipal and state governments complained about strained budgets and accommodations, and demanded more support from the federal government. After a contentious summit between the states and federal government in May 2023, a reform of the asylum system was agreed to: 1 billion Euros in upfront emergency aid was provided to the states, modernization of IT systems to speed up application processing and tracking, renewed focus on deportations of rejected asylum seekers, and an increase in the number of days that rejected asylum seekers can be placed in preventative detention for from 10 days to 28 days. The federal government rejected demands for an automatic, flat-rate 1,000 Euro payment per refugee to municipalities, as well as rejecting new border controls. However, Scholz agreed to hold another summit in November 2023, when the results of the proposed Common European Asylum System will be announced. The German government says it supports the EU-wide proposal for asylum processing centers outside of European Union's borders.[35]

In 2022, Germany witnessed a 70% increase in attacks on refugee/asylum centers compared to 2021. According to ARD-DeutschlandTREND, 77% of Germans believe the federal government does not place enough importance on the problems created by migrants, and ARD-InfratestDimap shows that the issue of refugees and asylum seekers has jumped to the third most important issue amongst German voters, with 19% of respondents citing the issue as most important (climate change was rated as most important by 26%, followed by the Ukraine War at 25%). The renewed refugee and asylum wave coincided with a surge in support for the far-right Alternative for Germany party.[36]

Immigration and citizenship reform

In June 2023, the government overhauled of Germany's immigration system. The new Skilled Workers' Act ("Fachkräfteeinwanderungsgesetz") aims to greatly liberalize Germany's immigration rules for skilled and educated workers, and implements a points-based immigration system modeled upon Canada's immigration laws. The law also provides for faster processing of applications, faster and easier recognition of foreign degrees and work experience, introduces a new job seeker visa, lowers the minimum salary for EU Blue Card (from an annual pre-tax salary of 58,400 euros to 43,800 euros), makes it easier to change industries, introduces a new family reunification visa, and allows refugees/asylum seekers who entered before March 2023 to enter vocational training if qualified. The law was passed in July 2023.[37][38][39]

  • Jobs must either meet a minimum salary threshold or be subject to a collective agreement before the Federal Employment Agency approves the visa application.
  • The new points system takes into account qualifications, German language skills, previous professional experience, previous stays in Germany, age of the applicant, and the number of dependents coming with the applicant.
  • Graduates from German universities/apprenticeships will automatically receive a 1-year "opportunity card" visa that allows them to stay in the country past their graduation date and enables part-time and trial work while looking for full-time work.
  • Sectors deemed to have acute labor shortages will receive special attention for applications and processing, so long as the job offers are subject to fair pay, collective bargaining contracts, and compulsory social insurance coverage.
  • The existing Western Balkans Regulations quota for workers will be doubled from 25,000 to 50,000 per year.

A loosening of citizenship and naturalization rules is scheduled for the second half of 2023.

Defense policy

At the formation of the coalition government, plans existed to (further) restrict German arms sales,[40] under Christine Lambrecht as defence minister.

In response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Traffic Light coalition joined with the opposition CDU/CSU to pass a special 100 billion Euro package to finance a re-arming of the Bundeswehr, marking a radical break with the foreign policy of the past 30 years. The funds were to be used to purchase new fighter jets (including the F-35), armed drones, boats, submarines, combat vehicles, and personal equipment. 41 billion Euros were earmarked for the airforce, 19 billion for the navy, 17 billion for the ground forces, and 21 billion across all branches of the military for new communication technology and to counter the threat of cyberattacks.[41]

Lambrecht was replaced by Boris Pistorius in January 2023 because of her egregious missteps.

Deliveries of the Leopard I tank to Ukraine were approved in March 2023.[42] In July 2023, Scholz announced a long-term support package for the Ukrainian military worth 17 billion Euros, primarily weapons and lasting through 2027.[43]

Scholz earned copious abuse as he isolated himself over the Taurus KEPD 350 missile in early 2024. In the midst of the debate over whether to supply it to Ukraine, the Foreign Intelligence Service (Russia) broadcast what was supposed to be a confidential web conversation between four senior Bundeswehr personnel about it.

As the invasion entered its third year amid evidence of rape by the aggressors who had discarded the Geneva Conventions and calls from senior European politicians to shift to a war-time economy,[44] some Scholz coalition members wanted to move gently.[40]

Animal welfare

Agriculture minister Cem Özdemir proposed a mandatory Animal Husbandry Label for animal products that are produced in Germany and also destined for sale in Germany.[45]

Education and childcare policy

In May 2022, a new Kita Quality Act was passed, providing 4 billion Euros for childcare centers. The law requires that individual states use the funds to improve the quality of childcare and not merely reduce the fees paid by parents. The law also directs more support and attention to so called "language-daycare centers" ("Sprachkita"), which have a specialized focus on accelerated language acquisition and literacy from an early age.[46][47]

In August 2022, a large expansion of the BAföG student loan and grant system was undertaken, with greater eligibility based upon income and age, as well as direct payments increasing substantially. The reform is considered the first step in a program to expand the system and make support entirely independent of parental income.[48]

In June 2023, a new Continuing Education & Training Act was passed, with the goal of reforming and expanding Germany's apprenticeship system. The law implements an apprenticeship guarantee, expands and simplifies government funding for continuing education/training, introduces new funding (called “qualification money”) for workers who are threatened with redundancy due to structural change in their industry, mandates that trainees receive higher pay (equal to 60% of the equivalent full-time salary, or 67% if they have a child), and introduces a new vocational orientation for young people can have a test-period to try out the apprenticeship before actually deciding and starting. Support will be given for those who start training in another region of Germany and will receive a subsidy for two monthly trips back home, and anyone who cannot find an apprenticeship in their region is entitled to external training in a cooperation company and will receive monetary support. Training support in small and medium-sized businesses will be greatly expanded, and the qualification money requires a company-specific or sector-wide collective agreement, where an employer’s top-up in addition to the government support can be determined.[49]

Electoral law

In November 2022, the voting age for elections to the European Parliament was lowered from 18 to 16 via amendments to the European Elections Act.[50]

In March 2023, a controversial new election law was passed with the goal of shrinking the size of the German Bundestag. The New Elections Act permanently fixes the number of elected Bundestag members at 630 (down from 732 after the 2021 federal election) and eliminates overhang and compensation seats. Instead, to maintain proportionality, priority is to be given to the second (party-list) vote over the first (constituency) vote when calculating the apportionment of seats. In practice, this means that candidates who have won a constituency will not be seated if doing so would increase their party's seat share beyond their proportional vote share. Furthermore, the 5% threshold for party-list seats will no longer be exempted for parties that win at least three constituency seats.

The law is seen as a necessary step by the SPD, Greens, and FDP to reduce the size of the parliament, which has progressively expanded in size from 603 seats in 2002 to 732 seats in 2021 due to increased political fragmentation, and creates problems for seating in the Bundestag, since the building is not designed for such large numbers of parliamentarians. The privileging of proportional seats over directly-elected seats is seen by the Christian Social Union as a direct attack on them, as they tend to dominate directly-elected seats in Bavaria, while the implementation of a hard 5% threshold is seen by Die Linke as a direct attack upon them, as in the 2021 federal election, Die Linke received 4.9% of the vote but were still awarded their share of proportional seats due to winning three directly-elected seats.[51]

Governance

In the first year of the Scholz coalition, family minister Anne Spiegel resigned, under pressure for her handling of a 2021 flooding crisis in her former role as Rhineland-Palatinate environment minister.[52] She was replaced by her fellow Green party member Lisa Paus.[53]

Chancellor Scholz was summoned by a panel investigating the Cum Ex affair, for his role in the city of Hamburg's decision not to prosecute a bank that had illicitly gained tax funds.[54]

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