Mr. Woidke, the compromise of the coal Commission, to take the people in the Lausitz, the fears of the Coal phase-out?
to decide A compromise is, Yes, always, approach each other. In this case, was trying to find a balance: on the one hand, we have to get out to tackle the energy challenge that we get out from 2022 out of nuclear energy and at the same time, due to climate protection, but also General environmental pollution and landscape destruction, gradually from the coal. And on the other hand, it is a question, to clarify what can do the Federal government and the Länder, the structure to promote development in the affected regions.
such A policy decision, such as the coal exit on the Federal level structure decisions of the Federal level. I am therefore very pleased that the Commission has followed what we have called for Prime Minister for months and years. If the proposals are implemented, the success of the Coal phase-fair. This is me – as a native of Lusatia, of course, aware that this is for the companies concerned and their a right to be proud employees of an incision. But that was Long foreseeable.
the Minister presidents of The concerned countries have observed the work of the Commission, at the end you wrote even fire letters to the Chancellor. What was most important to you?
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in addition to the commitment for Structural support over a longer period of time in the billions was important to us that we get a programme in the amount of 150 million euros. This is already decided. Secondly, it is now important that measures writes the law, specifically, how the structural change will be implemented: the Expansion of railway lines, research and science, for example, in the urgently needed storage technology, but also good funding conditions for companies to settle in now.
Dietmar Woidke (SPD), Prime Minister of Brandenburg.Photo: Jens Büttner/dpa
Thirdly, we need to be striving to elevate the Image of the regions and attractive shape for the time after the brown coal. Culture is for me a very important pillar. The RAG-Stiftung to respond to the coal phase-out in the Ruhr area, for example, has supported the Ruhr Triennale. It is beyond Germany’s borders known.
you have been warned a few months ago, a faster carbon can strengthen exit the AfD. The risk is now off the table?
The Concerns of the people in the Lausitz region and other regions are absolutely right: Many jobs in the brown coal industry, with which you can earn good money. Burned in them also, that there were structural breaks. The social and economic turmoil can drag and political turmoil. Because of the risk that populists will benefit, because they say,‘ We want to ensure that everything stays as it is’.
These simple solutions in an increasingly complex world, caught, unfortunately, in the case of many, especially when confidence in politics is disturbed. If the proposals of the coal Commission by act of the German Bundestag, the political reality, so there is a very concrete measures act, the time runs and strands of Funding specifies that it is policy to win back trust.
The path of the brown coal in the period 2023 to 2030 is not described in the final report of the coal Commission, very concretely. That was a concern?
the task of The Commission was to bring Germany in the area of the energy industry that the climate targets for 2030 are met. In the final report is set out specifically, which there are still residual quantities of carbon by 2030 on the market, so that the climate goals will be met. Also important is a regular Review with a view to security of supply, however, and this was anchored to the happiness. If you can go with the coal exit faster. Security of supply should, however, prior to the collapse, or the price of Electricity go through the roof, it will take longer.
Tens of millions of tonnes of savings in emissions are to be made in 2025, an innovation project that relates to the power plant Jänschwalde. What is planned?
On the Federal level has already been decided that to settle the German center for air and space travel (DLR) in the Lausitz region. It is planning a project with the power plant Jänschwalde is to be equipped with a completely new technology, which can make it possible to reduce the emissions of the power plant significantly. We are anxious that this technology can be deployed quickly.
On Thursday, they meet and their counterparts in Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt with Chancellor Angela Merkel. What will you discuss?
It is a matter that the content will be politically implemented quickly. Until April vertices for the measures to act are present, The Tempo is given to the complex issue of high. But it is necessary to act quickly now to show the people: We will not switch off, only power plants, but bring a whole lot New in the regions.
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Dietmar Woidke , 57, is according to the Offices as a Minister in various portfolios and as a group-in-chief since 2013, Prime Minister and Chairman of the SPD in Brandenburg.
