Lindner and Habeck cling to their "principles" - that's not wise
Created: 09/23/2022, 09:57
By: Mike Schier
Nancy Faeser Federal Minister of the Interior and Homeland (SPD), Federal Minister of Finance Christian Lindner (FDP), Dr.
Robert Habeck, Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Climate Protection (B 90/The Greens) and Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD).
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With inflation and the energy crisis, a difficult winter awaits us.
The traffic light parties should act smarter and not stick to principles, comments Mike Schier.
It was a remarkable admission: When it comes to the debt brake, things are slowly getting "lonelier around me", stated Finance Minister Christian Lindner - and one had to think a little about the joke about the wrong-way driver who thinks hundreds are coming his way.
Lindner's colleague Robert Habeck, who has now announced new aid because of the high gas prices, has constitutional concerns about the gas surcharge - but still wants to introduce it, even though the nationalization of the Uniper Group means that its essential basis is lost.
Apparently, the traffic light parties are desperately sticking to their “principles” before the Lower Saxony elections next week, even beyond the eternal nuclear power plant debate.
Crises in Germany: inflation and energy have political "explosive power"
That's not wise, because you have to get through a difficult winter.
Also political.
In Bavaria, the AfD, which has long been discredited as a haphazard and hopelessly divided bunch, comes back to eleven percent in the most recent survey.
In Thuringia it is the strongest force!
You don't have to paint a "winter of anger" on the wall, but inflation and energy do have explosive power.
Countries around us are therefore politically capping their energy prices.
Only Berlin thinks it has to artificially increase it.
That will not go well.
Instead, it would make sense for the state to step in for this winter (even with higher debt) and at the same time push renewables, alternative gas, heating system conversions, home insulation.
Long-term strategy, coupled with short-term help for citizens and the economy.
Mike Schier
