Germany’s new post-Merkel government
Germany will have a center-left government for the first time in 16 years and a new chancellor, Olaf Scholz, a Social Democrat, whose job will be to fill the very big shoes of Angela Merkel.
- center-left : (정치적) 중도 좌파의
After much anticipation, Scholz and his coalition partners from the progressive Greens and the pro-business Free Democrats announced on Wednesday a 177-page governing deal that they had been negotiating under strict secrecy since the Sept. 26 election.
- coalition : (둘 이상의 정당으로 구성된) 연립 정부, 연정, (특히 정치적인) 연합체
Despite differences, they said they had found enough common ground to push forward with plans to beat back the coronavirus pandemic, increase the minimum wage and put Germany on a path to quit coal.
Who is Olaf Scholz? The new chancellor, who will be sworn in next month, succeeded in his campaign by convincing voters that he would be very much like Merkel, but rarely has a German leader come into office amid so many crises.
His to-do list: Scholz’s government faces a pandemic that is spiraling quickly upward and border conflicts in Belarus and Ukraine. His two more hawkish coalition partners might force the new chancellor to rethink some past policies.
- hawkish : 매파[강경파]의 (↔dovish)
Changes ahead: Germany’s new government wants to legalize marijuana, a measure that Merkel’s party blocked for years.
- measure : (특정 목적을 달성하기 위한) 조치[정책]