Chancellor Friedrich Merz (CDU) plans to meet with the leaders of the CDU/CSU this Monday to discuss the future of the announced "autumn of reforms."

He will also meet this afternoon with all CDU/CSU ministers, parliamentary group leader Jens Spahn, CDU General Secretary Carsten Linnemann, and top CSU officials at the Chancellery. This was announced by government sources, after the initial report by Table.Media editor-in-chief Michael Bröcker. Starting at 3:00 p.m., the meeting will focus on the substantive issues of the coalition with the SPD and communication, it was reported.

Contrary to initial promises, the coalition's work has recently been heavily dominated by disputes: first over the failure to reduce the electricity tax for everyone, then the composition of the Federal Constitutional Court, and currently, above all, over tax and social policy. After the end of the summer recess, important reform projects are to be tackled. How the sometimes opposing positions of the CDU/CSU and SPD will be reconciled remains unclear. "This will be strenuous work for us in the fall," Merz said on Sunday at the federal government's open day.