Nuclear power yes please - but why is Lindner's insight so late?
Created: 06/09/2022, 18:30
By: Georg Anastasiadis
A commentary by Merkur Editor-in-Chief Georg Anastasiadis.
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But now: The FDP wants to examine the continued use of nuclear power in Germany.
A real push in view of Putin's war and turning point, but dynamite for the traffic light coalition.
A commentary by Georg Anastasiadis.
What is surprising about FDP leader Lindner's nuclear initiative is that it comes so late.
The liberals have been silent for far too long, afraid of spoiling the traffic light honeymoon by demanding longer use of Germany's last nuclear reactors.
But the red-green-yellow honeymoon is over now anyway.
The SPD and the Greens have already taken care of this by trying to grill the smallest coalition partner with their calls for tax increases for certain sectors favored by the war, such as the oil industry.
If Lindner would also swallow this toad, the FDP would be finished.
Now his push comes a bit like a tit for tat.
The Greens are already squeaking.
However, the proposal is correct if the government takes its own word about the turning point seriously.
In the face of Putin's war of annihilation in Europe, it is national madness to squander precious gas on power generation and deprive yourself of a reliable and (again) majority-accepted energy source that Germany could urgently need as early as next winter to prevent blackouts.
It's not just the murderer in the Kremlin brandishing the gas gun.
The nuclear power from France, which was previously available as an energy reserve, will soon run out due to the overdue renovation of many French nuclear power plants.
The Green Economics Minister Habeck can still do as many beckons to the gas sheiks:
If the energy price explosion continues unabated in autumn, not only the traffic light parties will have a problem, but all citizens and companies in Germany.
At stake is nothing less than the future of Germany as an industrial location.
