They are in One of Die welt. Sixteen ministers and the new Chancellor Olaf Scholz, from what is called in Germany a ” coalition in traffic light “. The term comes up in all the newspapers, it refers to the colors of the three parties that make up this coalition: red for the social democrats of the SPD, yellow for the liberals of the FPD and green for the ecologists. Three colors reminiscent of the traffic lights that we cross on the road, this is why our German friends speak of coalition ” in traffic light “.
In any case, this road is now clear for the government which will take office this Wednesday, December 8. Indeed, explains the Frankurter Allgemeine, the three parties yesterday approved the coalition agreement entitled ” Dare to make more progress “. A 177-page document that the partners have also chosen to sign today in a place ” iconic », Specifies the newspaper, namely the Berlin Futurium, an exhibition center on the subject of the construction of the future.
A government presented as equal
In terms of the future, in addition to the eminently topical pandemic, this government is first and foremost committed to climate protection. And that’s good, because a survey relayed by the Süddeutsche Zeitung teaches us that climate protection is precisely the area where the Germans expect the most progress, they are 34% to declare it. In front of health with 31%, or far ahead of questions of foreign policy for example, for which 7% of Germans say they hope for progress.
Progress has already been made in terms of parity in any case, it is a government that wants to be equal: ” The proportion of women is higher than ever at the start of the legislature », Underlines the Süddeutsche Zeitung. There are eight men for eight women, some of whom reach key positions such as Social Democrat Christine Lambrecht at the Ministry of Defense, ” the woman soldiers should trust », Like this Die welt, or even the ecologist Annalena Baerbock who inherits the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. However, small downside for the Frankfurter Allgemeine : ” During the presentation, Chancellor Scholz said parity was important to him “, However, yesterday at his side” the majority of cabinet members were men “. Too bad, but whatever the case, the parity of this government is the main point retained by the international press. This is how it is presented on the front page ofEl País in Spain, and it is also on this point that La Repubblica insists in Italy.
The ” chaos “ British Kabul Evacuation
When the front page of New York Times, in the United States, alerts us to ” an impending food disaster “Which could affect millions of people in Afghanistan, the British press returns to the” chaos Of the Kabul evacuation. British newsstands echo a whistleblower Raphael Marshall, a former diplomat stationed in the Afghan capital at the time of the evacuation last summer, when the Taliban regained power. He was auditioned Monday, December 6 by the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Commons, and his revelations are on the front page of The Independent like Guardian, which speaks to us of a ” devastating tale “. Tens of thousands of Afghans were unable to access British aid ” because of the confusion within the Foreign Office “. ” Bureaucratic chaos, ministerial interventions, lack of planning “… All this would have led to” let people die at the hands of the Taliban “.
The former diplomat says, for example, that at the height of the crisis, one afternoon, he was alone working in the evacuation office. He claims to have had to take ” life and death decisions On cases of which he knew little or nothing. According to him, between 75 and 150,000 people requested the British evacuation and ” less than 5 % of these people eventually received assistance “. Revelations already made this summer, to his superiors, and which led to the opening of an internal investigation. The results have not been published, but the Guardian understands that this might have led to the landing of Dominic Raab. The Minister of Foreign Affairs has since inherited a new cabinet.
The diplomatic boycott of the Beijing Olympics
When politics comes into sport … Another file in the international press, the diplomatic boycott of the Beijing Olympics. To read in the front page of Frankfurter Allgemeine or the Belgian daily The evening like so many others, because the file obviously interests the whole world. ” For months, Explain The evening, the American government was looking for the best way to position itself with regard to the Winter Games, this popular and planetary event organized in February 2022 by a country which it accuses of perpetrating a “genocide” in Xinjiang “. Well here we are, the White House has ruled: despite Chinese warnings on possible countermeasures, ” the United States will send their athletes, but no diplomatic representative “.
It is therefore a partial boycott, The evening specifies here that the American Olympic Committee is opposed for its part to a total boycott, explaining that ” the Games matter after months of pandemic “. In the past, this Committee has also judged the boycott of the Moscow Games by the Westerners in 1980 and those of Los Angeles in 1984 by the Soviet Union as a ” fault “. For its part, the Global Times of China is already publishing the response of a spokesperson for the Chinese Foreign Ministry. For him, ” the protagonists of the Olympic Games are athletes and not politicians. Politicians who brag about the so-called boycott are doing it simply to gain political advantage and gain attention “. In short, move around, there is nothing to see!