except we had before in the coalition meetings were very focused on unique advice. there was never enough time to really formulate your thought properly. you always had to be very brief. we stormed in said what we had to say stormed out, went back to i ministry. so it was great to have time and i would say it was actually really important to have the kind of time that we just hadn't been last 2 days to get a sense of the bigger picture to look at where we are and where we're, where we're headed and that's what happened, this cabinet retreat was very much defined by the situation we find ourselves in the frontal, terrible seriousness of the, our, the awareness that every decision we make can happen. major implants, but all the same to have a bit more time to ask questions to thinking in a bit more detail about things to think of about the bigger picture and oscar mom that was what was so important in this cabinet retreat homes are, i can't say that we were back to the uplifted spirit we were in at the beginning, but there's a sense of dynamism and the commitment that we have. i think it was 36 hours we

were debating, but that's what made this retreat. so it is so important. and so special and the sense of time was reflected in our debates with chancellors referred to a few points. perhaps i can just add to that range of all of these plans will only work if large government cooperates are properly and visit and cooperation working together on the basis of solidarity having the will to work together even though our partners have different political views, different political experiences we have to join forces or close ranks and make progress energy that came up here. it's l. n. j. broaden doses. planning acceleration address is one that will mean that we will reduce the planning permission requirements are too little to mean what absolutely necessary. so that we can speed up the planning permission for the l. n. g homes and terminals. and that we can approve the planning permission in a few weeks, not months and years. and there are 2 act was that we were able to put together

recently because the alum poison vans and environmental ministry and the justice ministry and all the other ministries joined forces the router and really worked together. people weren't all judging, pursuing a sort of silo mindset because if they had wouldn't have worked, everybody really tried to work beyond their own portfolio. thank you. to defeat limply and marketable support from the justice ministry as well. the other point that letter chancellor said that many people are fleeing their homes in ukraine and coming to us, they need good to support them. we also want to integrate as many as we can into the labor market, which is of course, the job of the day now. but we want to offer that's on those jobs who are fleeing from russia, or who have already fled from russia laying the putin regime and us one, or who do not wish to return the call to russia. so those who come to us from russia, we are going to pull from and deutschland, an invite to come to germany. and we can use you here in germany. and that means

many of the different ministries need to cooperate. we have to have the labor ministry 1st and foremost on reducing the obstacles for the recognition of. i'm certificate on farmhouses, visa and motors, we need the foreign ministry to speed up the lisa process. we need to ensure that the interior ministry is making sure we don't get a bunch of suffice here. but we look at who's actually coming that we have to work together with the trade unions to ensure that we can help. and will these people go to work on her? no one can do it on their own. we can only do it if we really worked closely together. another example not to off of what we discussed when that was not getting recorded the media attention that he could through jim mr. had talked about this a little bit as well through food scarcity. heart is going to impact massively on parts of the world who are already religious, really struggling, who are having political turbulence as it is in the subordinate. and it's not just about preventing starvation, which is a big enough job of stopping people from starving in this situation. long smith,

but also from that through our food supply, political stability isn't a block created or huddled in the opposite is true. however, if people are hungry, this will lead to more political instability in situations that are already almost potentially unstable. so we need to cooperate, we need to have the foreign ministry, the agricultural ministry, the development corporation ministry, and the chancellor's office is all was involved as well. and so all of the portfolios are showing. so how they can work together, what we can achieve if we work together and not just say, well as long as my ministry is doing well, i don't care what happens to the other ministries. and this was something that the cabinet treat showed as clearly as well. and in recent hours, we have seen this particularly that we are going to support each other and worked together as a government was with all the industries involved in the practice. this pushed us gave was a kind of motivation that we needed. anyway, not that we aren't motivated anyway,

but it was really helpful just to have this sense of team spirit without ever being articulated or young. i worked, but it's there. the government is working together very, very well. one of their foreclosure, yes, it was a very successful cabinet retreat niche and it was a pleasant atmosphere. i had concentrated gum, relax, real atmosphere. we had to meet critically engage with some very difficult issues. but that didn't mean that we didn't find opportunity to laugh with one of those. well, even in difficult times, almost this is important. and i think it's an expression of the way that we're working together as partners like them via arms and columns. and since we have entered office, the german government is work has been very much defined by managing various different crises of it, not just al coping with the pandemic. but the war in europe, though, and not very much defined a political work day for day,

far more than we could ever have believed. none of us wanted it to be this way. it's mine and boys in my own portfolio, i can say fighting conflicts that took all this further steps that were going to be making are looking at the sanction implementation act, to the task force for the finance and economics ministry. and we've asked this task force to look at where there are deficits when it comes to green stick. tell, ascertaining this in people who are beneficiaries of the put in regime. i was it all and looking at how we can tackle that and new instrument that we discussed as well within the framework of this cabinet retreat that we will be looking at from all is unique a scrutiny of whether those who are on sanction list have a legal obligation or can be made to have

a legal and obligation to declare their assets and germany you're free. so this legal obligation of persons listed on the sanctions list scale would then be able to be fine if they did not declare their assets and others are the a completely new tools in order to want them to ensure that we can really help enforce the sanctions with that we have against him, doth people, and legal entities and to make this really have teeth while we're in the final phase of examining this within the german government, we want to vote by a circulation by next monday in order to formulate the final versions. so that the parliamentary groups um, being stuck can then deal with these on tuesday involved in our cabinet retreat. we also took a further step above and beyond the crisis to think long term in a strategic manner at harrow. how you know,

to deal with the situation the georgia war and ukraine has completely changed our security system in europe. it really is a turning point in history, in terms of security. see, but it's also a turning point in our economic history as well as that for the even german economic model that we have up here in germany is changing as a result. when habit can talk about this all the time is changing our energy supply in this country the applies. and then the question of i've been pricing and competitiveness problem is also an issue. if we have to get energy from completely different conditions and could different prices at different prices as well. so the business model for germany is changing. the macro economic situation has changed considerably. and we're seeing this when we looked at the reduced growth in flexion . the forecasts and the increased inflation figures that we're seeing and otherwise on that of them off the gone, we began a frank exchange about all of the things that need to be done more from the

perspective for economic growth needs to be strengthened. how can we do this? how can we overcome a scarcity in terms of skilled workers, energy, raw materials? all of the things that are slowing us down when it comes to increasing productivity and the feeling better performance, which can lead to greater prosperity for the country. soon we also talked about the inflation system obviously, and it affects us to if we hear that people are really suffering under the price burdens because of the new of inflation rates we haven't put together to sanction packages all or so a not sanction packages to speak a correct himself, but rather packages to ease the burden of increased energy prices on people so that people aren't left alone with these price hikes isn't we can buy talk and i, and we have already contributed this year. and i talked to and i thought to easing more people's lives,

but we're going to have to look about financial policy in germany and in europe. and we're going to have to adjust this in view of the inflation rate orphan. and it is necessary that probably all work with the changed financial situation of the opposite data as well. so that we don't either, i'm so tired drive the prices up with our subsidies or reducing the options to be able to access to of the european central bank by increasing the debt problems with the debt ratios already being quite high after our attempts to super 50 balance out the pat, the impact of the economy on the, by the pandemic. so it looked at all of the economic challenges facing this country, which does i am confident, more do you feel that, you know, what's even untoward modified innovative responses and new ideas will be developed as young the other that we will want spell out in a bit more detail,

very quickly on the phone. so there's a question from michelle fisher now, dpa so thank you very much. i've got some questions about ukraine minister. a committee of excellence soon spoke you to one. ah, you have a listening to german chancellor. allah shall flank by his economy minister of hobbit and finance minister christian linton, us speaking after a 2 day meeting to help us make sense of what we just heard. i have date of the chief political correspondent, melinda crane. here with me again in the studio. linda, welcome back. i view schoultz said there putin has got this wrong. you know, he has strength and nato help us break down what was said, what stood out for you, strength, nato, and strengthened the you. and of course, it was quite unusual that at this retreat, which was clearly aimed at trying to help them all get on one page and really get out ahead of some of the crisis management and short term reactive governing that

they've been doing. and that was quite interesting to hear the economy minister explain how much time pressure they've been under, how they've, you know, just had meetings where they kind of shot out their current thoughts and then rush out again. so it was quite interesting that in that context they still chose to invite the swedish and finish a prime ministers to join them to talk about their potential applications to join nato and, and show saying they are for that reason, this is what's happening due to proteins war we're actually seeing not less nato, but more so that was one aspect i found the other aspect quite interesting. the degree to which apparently there discussions focused on how do we work together to expedite things that have to happen. not only, but largely as a result of this war. so how do we expedite making sure that those who are fleeing

ukraine and even russia can join our labor market if they want to, that they get the permits and the visas that they need? or how do we expedite the planning, the, an infrastructure investment that we have to do to make sure we've got the l n g terminals to replace russian gas with imported liquefied natural gas, or how to we reduce the bureaucracy around sanctions and impounding assets of beneficial owners, so again and again, clearly the ministry is talking about how do we cooperate, to take out the red tape in this otherwise very bureaucratic system. and that certainly would be a move forward for germany. all right, thank you. melinda cram will have to leave it there, but i'm sure we'll have plenty more in the next hour. you have a watching w news. live coverage of the german government cabinet meeting at mesa, back just outside of berlin. german chancellor, all of sholtes, has had russian president vladimir putin miscalculated with his invasion of you crime, and that the war has strengthened both nato and the

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