In the Union is growing to exit critical voices to the plans for a Coal. The CDU member of the Bundestag, Fischer said that the recommendations of the coal Commission, destroyed prospects for the future.
In the Union group, there is massive resistance against the Federal government’s planned Coal phase-out by 2038 with a billion-dollar Structural support for the coal regions. The CDU member of the German Bundestag and the budget politicians Axel E. Fischer told dpa in Berlin: “the recommendations of The coal Commission as such are not binding. Point you in the wrong direction, destroying prospects for the future, and damage to the environment.” Fischer belongs to a group of Union members who do not accept the government’s plans.
The CDU financial politician Olav Gutting said: “The distribution of billions of tax money with the watering can on the affected regions will not create thriving landscapes. It is our damn duty, with the hard-earned money of the citizens of a careful and measured manner.” Gutting and fishermen belong to the extended group management Board.
warning of rising electricity prices
in addition to the two baden-württemberg, members of fishermen and Gutting the MP Andreas Mattfeldt (CDU lower Saxony), Klaus-Peter Willsch (CDU/Germany) and Alois Rainer (CSU/Bavaria) expressed criticism of the Coal phase-out by 2038. They warned of rising electricity prices, a risk to security of supply and the relocation of Production abroad.
The Federal Cabinet approved a week ago, key points to billions in aid for the coal regions. For the structural change in the Lausitz, in Germany and in the Rhine area to flow over the next two decades, a total of up to EUR 40 billion from the Federal government in the country. Above all, the Minister-presidents of the coal-countries had made pressure. With the money measures for the structural change are to be financed.
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