Schaeuble as Merkel’s Dr. No Holds Coalition Purse Strings
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel paid a high price for keeping the Finance Ministry for Wolfgang Schaeuble last month when she granted her coalition partner more cabinet posts than the election result justified.
As ministers hold two days of talks at the government’s Meseberg guest house outside Berlin from today, Schaeuble has the first opportunity of Merkel’s third term to prove his worth to the chancellor and to their Christian Democratic Union party.