Finance Minister Lindner is considering returning 2.2 billion euros to the banks – and has apparently won Robert Habeck as a supporter. The factions of the SPD and the Greens, however, are up in arms.
How do you give the German banks 2.2 billion euros without getting a rebuff from the federal cabinet and also without causing a public outcry? Christian Lindner probably pondered this question for some time, because his proposed solution is truly creative: You make the financial institutions promise to provide the funds in the form of loans for the climate-friendly conversion of industry, residential buildings and transport, and that’s it In addition to the Federal Finance Minister, the actually skeptical Federal Minister of Economics was also on board. However, it is now apparent that Messrs. Lindner and Robert Habeck did not reckon with the members of the Bundestag from the SPD and the Greens: Both coalition factions vehemently reject the plans and, above all, accuse Habeck of having been lulled by his FDP colleague, yes glue, let