Overview
- Negotiators are working through technical questions, including which transition technologies would be allowed under any policy.
- The coalition committee reached agreements on several other disputes the previous evening, but it left the combustion-engine issue unresolved.
- Chancellor Friedrich Merz plans to press at the EU level to alter the planned 2035 end of approvals for new combustion engines, though the coalition lacks a unified position.
- Bavarian premier Markus Söder is calling to overturn the planned ban, while SPD leader Lars Klingbeil backs abandoning it in exchange for concessions from carmakers.
- Miersch’s timeline follows a day in which Merz hinted at a same-evening deal, a prospect that people in his circle later played down.