Overview

• Leaders adopted a short‑term plan prioritizing a Bürgergeld overhaul to a new basic security, a pension package with a 48 percent level plus expanded Mütterrente and a Frühstartrente, housing law updates, a Digitalpakt 2.0, and continuation of the Deutschlandticket beyond 2025 with a fixed financing key.
• Jens Spahn and Matthias Miersch said the coalition will improve coordination and communication, invoking a “Geist von Würzburg” to steady work through the autumn budgets and social reforms.
• Citing August data from the Federal Employment Agency, the parties linked the roadmap to reviving growth after unemployment rose to 3.025 million, pointing to investment incentives, lower energy costs and faster deregulation.
• After July’s failed vote for a constitutional court judge, the government prepares a new September attempt that requires a two‑thirds majority and outreach to Greens and Left lawmakers.
• In Toulon, Friedrich Merz and Emmanuel Macron opened a Franco‑German ministerial council set to unveil action plans on bureaucracy, energy and the EU single market, while the FCAS fighter program decision slipped to a year‑end target with talks planned in Berlin in October.