WRITTEN BY PHILIP OLTERMANN ON MAR 24, 2023. POSTED IN LATEST NEWS
German Govt In Crisis For Opposing EU Ban On Combustion Engines
A clash over climate protection measures is threatening to unravel Germany’s three-party governing alliance after the Green party accused its liberal coalition partners of gambling away the country’s reputation by blocking an EU-wide phase-out of internal combustion engines in cars.
“You can’t have a coalition of progress where only one party is in charge of progress and the others try to stop the progress,” the country’s vice-chancellor and economy minister, Robert Habeck, said at a meeting of the Green party’s parliamentary group in Weimar on Tuesday. [emphasis, links added]
The pro-business Free Democratic party’s (FDP) last-minute opposition to EU plans to ban sales of new cars with internal combustion engines from 2035, which European leaders are hoping to resolve at a summit in Brussels on Thursday and Friday, had damaged Germany’s standing in the bloc, Habeck said.
“We are losing debates, we are getting too little support for our projects.”
https://climatechangedispatch.com/german-govt-in-crisis-for-opposing-eu-ban-on-combustion-engines/
