No Integration, but Expansion?
The Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) will remain as a single institution. While the FDP would have preferred to integrate the BMZ into the Federal Ministry for Foreign Affairs (AA), argued the CDU/CSU that the significance and importance of the BMZ is too high to just let it go. Instead they even started discussing to extend the BMZ mandate by for example putting a stronger focus on the climate change-development nexus.
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Apart from this, I am sorry to see the red Heidi going. She did coin the past 11 years of bilateral development cooperation between Germany and partners and the next minister has to struggle hard to catch up with her.
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