The best man affair surrounding Secretary of State for Energy Patrick Graichen also puts his former employer in the spotlight – the think tank Agora Energiewende. Much of what later became law they came up with here. Is that reprehensible?
For Julia Klöckner, the matter is clear: A green energy network has the whole of Berlin under control. “They give each other reports” and then influence the policies of the federal government, says the economic politician from the CDU. And as if that weren’t questionable enough, there is obviously a “billionaire from America” behind it who finances everything. “He’s definitely not doing it out of pure altruism,” Klöckner says. German government work, remotely controlled from the USA?