Olaf Scholz wants to show that he is a reliable Minister of Finance, but the Chancellor could. The SPD politician is increasingly common internationally. Angela Ulrich has accompanied him in Portugal and Spain.
flies The good news: Scholz’ plane. Unlike the government, colleagues. The last Minister Maas was outside in Mali, also the Chancellor stranded in front of it. Olaf Scholz is sitting happily in one of the smallest machines of flight readiness, in the “Global 5000”. Just 13 seats. We are only three journalists on Board.
The breakdown of the flight readiness must stop, says the Federal Minister of Finance. As an Ex-mayor of Hamburg, he has good wires to Airbus. This year, the government will order three new machines. “From my point of view, it is important that you are in the habit of creating order in a timely manner, and long before planes, so that a proper inventory is there, as is every other airline in the Rest of the case.”
Portugal’s Prime Minister António Costa welcomes Olaf Scholz.
Planning and design
mishaps and uncertainties not like Scholz. He has things better in the handle. Plans. . This applies to the Eurozone as well as for the SPD. For Scholz, as Finance Minister, as well as the Vice party chief and Vice Chancellor.
In Lisbon, the first stop of Scholz’ journey, he is welcomed by Portugal’s Finance Minister, Mário Centeno on an old fortress. Thick walls, crossed swords hanging in the corridors, in the historic vaulted cellar, it’s slightly damp: “Welcome, Olaf,” says Centeno – an Economist who is also head of the Euro group. An important interlocutor for Scholz, also a socialist.
Portugal has recovered somewhat from the crisis: There are more Jobs, the economy is growing. “We need to get,” says Scholz, and praises: “we are also, therefore, here as there, in Portugal as in Germany, because we are together in the European Union. It must be said in the run-up to European elections in may again!”
responsibility
Olaf Scholz, with Spain’s economy Minister Nadia Calvino in Madrid
Social cohesion against loss of confidence: The repeated Scholz on this journey again and again. In Lisbon, it is Scholz’s first official visit as Minister of Finance. But he got an appointment at the socialist Premier, António Costa. Then, in Madrid, hits Scholz, Minister of economic Affairs, Nadia Calvino. “We have an excellent relationship,” says the former Brussels official.
Scholz next to her smiles, but he also knows exactly how Portugal and Spain currently look to Berlin. How the German economy. “When Germany coughs, we get sick”, you say again and again on this trip. Trust Scholz in the EU wants to establish in the face of a Brexit-Chaos. But the Vice-Chancellor has equally Enjoyed at home.
Scholz’ message
It is currently running is not bad for the SPD, with its social promises. “Trust us, we can do both – reliable governance and visions for the future” is Scholz’s message: “I am firmly convinced that the citizens expect, that a serious party, advanced, and progressive, which is at the same time reasonable, is needed. This is what provides the SPD.”
Sensible. In the case of this word, Scholz comes to many very quickly. Passionate? Since less. It needs, however, if you have German Chancellor’s ambitions? Scholz kraus draws in the little plane to the forehead. This is not his theme. Also not whether he was “the brain”, is the brain behind the concept for the future of the SPD: “The SPD has a pretty big “brain” from a couple of hundred thousand members. That is our strength.”
show internationally. The Scholz is currently often. For some, as for these journalists in Portugal, apparently, but still not enough: “I had to its name check. Properly known to the people, and he is not here.”
Scholz: Between monotonicity and strategy, 09.03.2018 Atlas |Germany |Berlin
