The Greens no longer insist on the Federal Ministry of Finance.

According to information from the FAZ, the group of ten green negotiators defined six ministries on Tuesday evening that the Greens want to claim.

These are the Federal Foreign Office and the Transport, Agriculture, Environment, Family and Transformation departments.

Neither the Federal Ministry of Finance nor the Federal Ministry of the Interior are among them, both houses are considered to be key departments within the Federal Government.

The negotiations with the SPD and FDP about the allocation of departments are still pending and allegedly, the Greens have not yet spoken the very last word.

Helene Bubrowski

Political correspondent in Berlin.

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It is a conceivable scenario, it is said from green negotiating circles. The Ministry of Finance will not let the formation of the traffic light fail. Presumably, the Greens are paying for the waiver with concessions on other issues, such as the climate. The Greens had previously affirmed several times that they see the house as indispensable for implementing their climate policy. The party assumes that 50 billion euros are required to invest in climate protection every year. For this, the finance ministry is more important than the environment ministry, so it was said. The Greens boss Robert Habeck should have got the post. However, FDP leader Christian Linder had emphatically claimed the department for himself.

For some time now, there has been concern among the Greens that the FDP will enter the coalition without a finance ministry, which could endanger stability. Apparently, the Greens are now primarily concentrating on the green core departments, although Habeck and co-boss Annalena Baerbock's goal was to broadly set up the party programmatically in order to reach into the breadth of society. The Federal Ministry of the Interior would have meant maximum exploitation, the party is apparently not yet ready for this. Personnel issues have not yet been discussed, but it is taken for granted that Baerbock will become foreign minister, Habeck could become environment minister, parliamentary group leader Anton Hofreiter transport minister, parliamentary group leader Katrin Göring-Eckardt possibly family minister. That the Greens actually get six departments,is unlikely; it will probably be five at most.