The dispute over the Growth Opportunities Act is entering the next round. The Bundestag's Mediation Committee passed the law with a majority of the traffic light parties.
But the Union continues to threaten to prevent the funding law in the Bundesrat. Now leaders from the SPD and FDP are attacking the Union for its blockade. The Union only wants to agree to the proposal if the federal government reverses the gradual elimination of agricultural diesel subsidies for farmers. But Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania's head of government Manuela Schwesig also only shakes her head at the Union's blockade.