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Green Chancellor candidate
Baerbock
proposes flood prevention funds for municipalities
7.52 a.m.:
Annalena Baerbock proposes a "provision fund" for municipalities for more reliable protection against floods. "In addition to emergency aid and subsidies, we also want to provide enough money to better support municipalities with flood protection, for example," said the Greens' candidate for chancellor of the "Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung". A strong climate protection program is also needed.
The emergency aid of around 400 million euros approved by the Federal Cabinet is correct.
"But that's not enough," said Baerbock.
“For many people, the house is retirement provision.
We have to protect that better.
Similar to energetic building renovation, homeowners should therefore be supported with KfW loans or tax deductibility if they want to protect their house against extreme weather with structural measures. "
The Greens chairman accused the CDU of not acting adequately on climate protection.
"With a pure climate prose, we will not get on the 1.5-degree path of the Paris Climate Agreement." Climate protection must be the guideline for all departments in the next federal government.
THW helpers are insulted in flood areas and thrown at garbage
6
a.m
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Volunteers from the Technical Relief Organization (THW) were sometimes received in an unfriendly manner when they were deployed in West German flood areas.
"It goes so far that our helpers are insulted," said the Vice President of the THW, Sabine Lackner, on Saturday in the RTL / ntv - "Frühstart".
"When they are out and about in emergency vehicles, they are thrown with garbage," added Lackner.
Behind the attacks are mainly lateral thinkers or people from the prepper scene, who claim to have been affected by the flood disaster, as well as some frustrated flood victims.
Some of the emergency services were filmed at their work by people who did not identify themselves as representatives of the press, said Lackner.
No operations have yet been canceled because of the incidents, but the situation is psychologically stressful for the volunteers.
"I am infinitely grateful to our emergency services that they are going on quite boldly," said Lackner.
NRW and Rhineland-Palatinate are preparing for rain
5.45 a.m.:
After the devastating floods, people in Rhineland-Palatinate and North Rhine-Westphalia are concerned about the weather forecast for the weekend. "At the moment I have no indications that there is a risk of water volumes as was the case," said the interior minister of Rhineland-Palatinate, Roger Lewentz (SPD), in Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler on Friday. Nevertheless, the crisis team is taking precautions. According to Lewentz, opportunities for the population to retreat are prepared as well as possible loudspeaker announcements for warnings. You watch the reporting situation "very, very carefully," he added.
North Rhine-Westphalia is also preparing for possible new heavy rainfalls.
According to a ministry spokesman for the news agency dpa, the control centers of the fire brigade and police would be sensitized again to the weather situation by decree of the NRW interior ministry.
»The work in the crisis teams in the cities and counties will continue on the weekend to coordinate the situation on site.
The same applies to the coordination group of the crisis team in the Ministry of the Interior. "
Business representatives criticize the delayed introduction of cell broadcasting
5.30 a.m.:
The Federal Association of Medium-Sized Enterprises (BVMW) criticizes the delayed introduction of the cell broadcast warning system for disaster control as irresponsible. “The system has been used successfully in other countries for years. Germany thus issues a certificate of poverty and arouses legitimate doubts abroad about the quality of technology Made in Germany, ”says BVMW managing director Markus Jerger to the newspapers of the Funke media group. The criticism is directed primarily against Federal Interior Minister Horst Seehofer (CSU). Seehofer was delaying the introduction with a feasibility study and was acting irresponsibly, said Jerger. This would once again revenge the fact that there are several people in charge of digitization in the Federal Cabinet.
Voters have little confidence in Laschet in dealing with the flood disaster
5.00 a.m.:
The voters trust CDU boss Armin Laschet least of the three candidates for chancellor to learn the right lessons from the flood disaster.
As the "Augsburger Allgemeine" reports, according to a representative survey by the opinion research institute Civey on behalf of the newspaper, only 17 percent believe that the North Rhine-Westphalian Prime Minister will be able to take the appropriate political consequences.
Most likely, the German citizens consider the Green top candidate Annalena Baerbock with 25 percent competent in dealing with the extreme weather catastrophe, followed by SPD Chancellor candidate Olaf Scholz with 20 percent.
38 percent do not consider any of the three candidates for chancellor to be competent in drawing the right lessons from the flood disaster.
/ AFP / dpa / Reuters
