He has secured a more business-friendly finance minister, in the shape of Hans Eichel.
Mr Eichel hinted that the stability pact should apply to levels of spending, not to budget deficits.
Hans Eichel, a former premier of the state of Hesse, became Germany's finance minister after Oskar Lafontaine resigned.
Hans Eichel, a former finance minister, suggests instead a lending facility with IMF-style conditions run by the European Commission.
So why have the coalition partners, albeit reluctantly, gone along with Mr Eichel?
Mr Welteke has crossed swords with Hans Eichel, the finance minister, on the budget deficit which he wants reduced and on gold.
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Since then, the dull but dogged Hans Eichel has succeeded in steadying the economy and pointing it in the right direction.
More fundamentally, Mr Eichel is not broadening the tax base so as to cut tax rates, but to raise the tax burden.
The Sparpaket was greeted with fierce opposition from all quarters, and the party's rank-and-file were outraged by Mr Eichel's embrace of freezes and spending cuts.
Mr Eichel, for one, realises this cannot be a one-off effort.
The spat may be a little academic a budget committee mainly rejected the idea of selling gold but the suspicious see Mr Welteke as playing a scapegoat for an irritated Mr Eichel.
ECONOMIST: A tussle over the integrity of a once-great central bank
If so, this would make Germany's deficit even bigger, making it even harder to imagine Mr Eichel keeping his promise to bring it back within the 3% limit next year.
German Finance Minister Hans Eichel said that Mr Wolfowitz is a "high level candidate, but there needs to be more discussions before" his election to the post of the development agency.
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Hans Eichel, the finance minister, portrays all this not as an increase in taxes but as a closing of loopholes and cutting of subsidies making the tax system more efficient, you see.
"It is absolutely essential that no state aid is given before it is authorised - if it is authorised - by the European Commission, " Mr Monti said after meetings with Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder and Finance Minister Hans Eichel.
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