New cabinet: Merz calls Minister - is Lower Saxony ignored?

New cabinet: Merz calls Minister - is Lower Saxony ignored?

Niedersachsen, Deutschland - On April 28, 2025, CDU party leader Friedrich Merz announced the ministerial staff for the new federal government. The CDU represents a total of four ministers and three ministers in the new government. Merz, who is considered a expected Chancellor, emphasizes the need for a government capable of acting and promotes the approval of the coalition agreement between the Union and the SPD. This is to be decided in the afternoon by about 150 delegates of the CDU, as FAZ

The ministers who take responsibility in the new government are:

• Thorsten Frei: Federal Minister for Special Tasks and Chief of the Federal Chancellery
• Karin Prien: Federal Minister of Education, Family, Seniors, Women and Youth
• Katherina Reiche: Federal Minister of Economics and Energy
• Patrick Schnieder: Federal Minister of Transport
• Johann WadePhul: Federal Minister of the Foreign Affairs
• nina Warken: Federal Minister of Health
• Karsten Wildberger: Federal Minister for Digitization and State Modernization

disagreement and criticism

Despite the nominations, there is resentment in Lower Saxony because the state association does not provide a minister in the cabinet. In addition, the chairman of the CDU employee wing, Dennis Radtke, expresses criticism of the lack of participation of the Christian-Democratic Working (CDA) in the new government. The nomination of Alexander Dobrindt (CSU) as the future Minister of the Interior could initiate a turn in migration policy, as from srf is described.

Dobrindt plans to increase rejections at the limits and to suspend family reunification for refugees with limited protection status. The digital association Bitkom congratulates Karsten Wildberger on its appointment and emphasizes the need for clear clarification of responsibilities in the new Digital Ministry. On the other hand, the current incumbent, Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock and Federal Minister of the Interior Nancy Faeser, congratulate her successors and emphasize the professionalism of the Ministry.

coalition agreement as the basis

The CDU and the SPD have agreed that the rejections at the EU external borders should take place in coordination with European partners. All the rule of law against irregular migration should be used without touching the legal right of asylum. Further essential content of the coalition agreement includes the withdrawal of the controversial "heating law" in favor of a new building energy law and the expansion of the mother's pension, which counts three pension points regardless of the year of birth.

The regulations on the citizens' allowance should also be tackled; From then on, a "basic security for job seekers" is established, which is linked to tightened obligations to cooperate. In addition, the government is planning to introduce a minimum wage of 15 euros per hour from the coming year, which is sketched in Deutschland.de