FDP leader Lindner counts the traffic lights: The dispute over nuclear power is sorely needed, agrees with Greta Thunberg

Created: 10/11/2022, 6:00 p.m

By: Georg Anastasiadis

Georg Anastasiadis, Editor-in-Chief of the Münchner Merkur, comments on Finance Minister Christian Lindner's (left) veto against Energy Minister Robert Habeck's Atomic Energy Act and the dispute over it in the traffic light coalition.

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With his veto against the Atomic Energy Act by Energy Minister Habeck, Finance Minister Lindner is sending an important signal.

The traffic light coalition's energy policy ghost run must finally be stopped, comments Georg Anastasiadis.

The traffic light flickers: the chancellor’s “double boom” is followed by the Lindner boom after the Lower Saxony elections.

The leader of the FDP vetoed the Atomic Energy Act of Minister of Energy Habeck.

This is as necessary as it is overdue.

Not to save the FDP.

But to avert serious damage to Germany.

To do this, the energy policy ghost trip, which our European partners are only shaking their heads at, must finally be stopped.

Nuclear power helps the climate: The Greens should, if not listen to the FDP, at least listen to Greta Thunberg

The FDP can no longer explain even to its most patient members (and the most good-natured taxpayers!) why the state is subsidizing the energy costs for citizens and companies for 200 billion euros and ruining the budget, while the government itself is driving up the same energy prices by using the Nuclear phase-out reduces the electricity supply and prefers to generate electricity from precious gas.

All the concessions that the Greens have made under the pressure of reality are window dressing.

What is needed is a lifetime extension of (at least) all three still active reactors for a period of three to four years.

In times of a historic threat of war, it is not only the renewables that are “liberation energies”, but also nuclear power.

It protects us from political blackmail and blackouts,

dampens prices and inflation and helps the climate.

Maybe Habeck should listen more to Greta Thunberg.

At "Maischberger" this calls for the continued operation of the German nuclear power plants.

SPD and Greens hypocritically warn FDP of a “coalition crisis”

A stronger handwriting of the Liberals in the red-green-dominated traffic light alliance is also badly needed in asylum policy.

While mayors and district administrators are calling for help ever louder and politicians are threatening to break their sacred promise that conditions like 2015 should never be repeated, the Bavarian Green Party leader Katha Schulze is seriously demanding the abolition of all border controls, to the jubilation of the smugglers.

SPD and Greens are now hypocritically warning the FDP of a “coalition crisis”.

But the worst thing is that the traffic-light government apparently has to look into the abyss before it can return to a policy of reason.

George Anastasiadis