The CDU has decided on its party Congress in Hamburg to examine the Fenomenbet charitable status of the German environmental aid (DUH). The party will also seek to ensure that the in many cities, diesel, driving bans, complaining the club receives no funds from the Federal budget. The Federal Ministry for the environment wants to promote the organization, however, continued.
The DUH plays a Central role in the debate on the driving bans on diesel cars in German towns and cities, and has placed before the court in the past few months, already several times driving bans. DUH, would be deprived of the benefit to the public but, should you make it difficult to the financing. Such an examination is the responsibility of the tax office.
It should be examined whether the PROJECT “meets the criteria for charitable status,” it says in a on the CDU party Congress adopted a resolution. The delegates voted also for a further application in which it is said that the CDU put the DUH get no more funds from the Federal budget.
“The CDU can be called for, but nothing in the way forward,” said a spokesman for the Federal Ministry of environment, the “Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung”. The Ministry does not want to leave the promotion of DUH: “We will look at as always, the funding is project based and as in the past, grant.”
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The German environmental aid Association criticized the approach of the CDU as a “frightening and disturbing”. It was “surprising that an organization that is committed to the compliance with European environmental standards, through the CDU, so under attack,” said the DUH-Federal managing Director Sascha Müller-Kraenner. This is what he would have expected only from parties of the right margin.
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Green party leader Anna Lena Baerbock practiced sharp criticism. “Just after the CDU celebrated for their intra-party democracy, it wants to deprive civil society actors of their working basis – for political reasons,” said Baerbock. “This is cynical.” In Germany not decided”, for good reason, the question of public benefit politically”. The “unpleasant driving restrictions” would be imposed by the courts, because the government – in particular, the Union refuses to act politically”. (AFP)
