Habeck drives out of his skin in the Bundestag!
During a speech in parliament, Federal Minister of Economics Robert Habeck shot sharply at the CDU and its climate policy of recent years. The deliberations in the plenary finally dealt with the laws for the faster expansion of renewable energies. During the discussion, allegations came from the CDU, they criticized the planned reforms.
Habeck then got angry: “If you let yourself be photographed in front of icebergs, but forget that icebergs melt. Getting off all sorts of things, rightly so, but forget that you have to build infrastructure for that. If you make climate policy decisions, but don’t back them up with measures, then you leave Germany out in the rain,” said the Green politician.
And also as a direct attack on climate policy under Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU): “And we have experienced that in the past: increasing dependence on Russian fossil fuels, a lack of diversification, non-compliance with climate policy goals, sluggish, even collapsed, expansion of renewable energies .”
Germany’s unfortunate situation from Habeck’s point of view: fault of the CDU under Merkel.
Meanwhile, CDU MP Andreas Jung spoke of a package of missed opportunities. Habeck did not seek dialogue with the Union and did not organize a round table with the federal states. Instead, the traffic light now rules from above.
CDU energy politician Andreas Jung (47)
Jung also criticized the fact that Chancellor Olaf Scholz (64, SPD) was not present at the debate: “The climate chancellor’s seat is empty.”
Wind power expansion is to be massively accelerated
After the debate, there were votes on five bills and several motions. Habeck spoke of the “biggest legislative package in the energy sector in recent years, probably decades”.
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The legislative package aims to significantly accelerate the expansion of renewable energies in Germany. Among other things, energy production from sources such as sun, water and wind is classified as being “of overriding public interest”.
Significantly more energy is to be generated by wind power both at sea and on land. In the future, two percent of the federal area should be available for wind energy. The package also regulates the compatibility of wind power with species protection.