'Everything is possible': German vice chancellor open to dialogue across entire political spectrum

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As Germany prepares for its 2025 elections, Green Party’s Robert Habeck said he is open to talks with all parties for possible post-election coalitions.

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00:00The German Vice-Chancellor attended the Web Summit event in Lisbon to discuss the political

00:06future of Germany. His own future, however, is uncertain. With the departure of the Liberals,

00:12the governing coalition is now in a minority. Habeck is open to dialogue with all parties

00:18leading up to Germany's general elections.

00:20Don't be ashamed to cooperate. That is the whole sense of democracy, that people are

00:27coming together, the parties are coming together and sharing their views and finding compromises

00:31and then move on. I would say right now in Germany everything is possible.

00:35Whoever governs Germany will have to live with Donald Trump, who ushers in a more challenging

00:40era that requires a strong Europe.

00:43People who are trying to destroy the image of the European Union are trying to destroy

00:51the possibility of freedom in Europe. So Germany's role is to help Europe to unite.

00:58We have a certain leadership.

01:00At the end of 2021, when the two Greens came to power, Robert Habeck was Germany's most

01:07popular politician, post-Merkel. But the Russian invasion of Ukraine opened an energy crisis

01:14that made it give in to fossil fuels. The approval rate dropped sharply and for that

01:20also contributed a lot to the economic retraction.

01:24Next weekend, Habeck should even win the internal race to be the Green candidate for chancellor.

01:31It will be much more difficult to stay in the country's government.

01:35The surveys conducted by the CDU's conservatives give only 10% to environmentalists.

01:43João Azevedo, Euronews, Lisbon.

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