Saxony's Minister President Michael Kretschmer has backed the statements made by the head of the Chancellery, Thorsten Frei (both CDU), on deviating from the coalition agreement between the CDU and SPD in the federal government. Frei was expressing a matter of course, Kretschmer told the Funke Mediengruppe newspapers. "The changes around us are taking place at breakneck speed. The current coalition agreement could not take all eventualities into account."
Kretschmer therefore sees economic growth as a priority. Production costs must fall and productivity must increase, he said. "A welfare state only works with economic growth."
