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Robert Habeck wants to accept Olaf Scholz's word of power on Akw running times

2022-10-17T21:54:30.062Z


“He took the full risk”: Robert Habeck follows the Chancellor’s authority to set guidelines and is now campaigning for the Scholz line as the Green Economics Minister – despite criticism from within his own ranks.


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Economics Minister Robert Habeck

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Economics Minister Robert Habeck (Greens) has campaigned to follow the Chancellor's decision in the nuclear dispute.

The fact that Olaf Scholz (SPD) has now exercised his “maximum authority” on the question of the running times of the remaining three nuclear power plants is an “unusual solution to a stuck situation,” said Habeck on Monday in the ARD “Tagesthemen”.

"He took the full risk, and I'm going to advocate that we go this route now, because anything else wouldn't be politically responsible."

Scholz had previously made use of his policy competence as chancellor for the first time since the traffic light coalition came into existence and spoken a word of power in the week-long dispute between the FDP and the Greens on the nuclear issue.

All three German nuclear power plants still connected to the grid should therefore be able to run until mid-April 2023.

The Greens had reacted cautiously to Scholz's decision.

The parliamentary group leadership wants to discuss the decision.

Habeck, on the other hand, described Scholz's proposal as one "with which I can work, with which I can live".

"We had to get out of this somehow," he added, referring to the day-long discussion.

"Too much time has passed, we should have clarified this earlier, but that wasn't possible." When asked what impression the dispute had made on the citizens, he said: "Probably not a good one and it was of no use either .« Habeck expressed the hope that the traffic light coalition could now deal with other things again.

"Hopefully more constructive then."

Party congress of the Greens against continued operation of Emsland nuclear power plant

When asked whether the Atomic Energy Act could now fail in the Bundestag due to a possible lack of votes from the ranks of the Greens, Habeck said: "I don't think so, because the country, Europe, is in a serious crisis.

And then to jeopardize the government in this situation doesn't seem proportionate at all to me.

That can't really happen.«

According to a second stress test commissioned by Habeck for the power grid in winter, the nuclear power plants could make a small contribution to stabilizing the grid.

However, the Greens politician had decided that only the two southern German nuclear power plants Isar II and Neckarwestheim II would be needed until mid-April 2023.

A federal party conference of the Greens underlined this line on Friday.

The resolution also said: "The Emsland nuclear power plant will be finally shut down and dismantled on January 1, 2023."

The FDP had called for the third nuclear power plant in Emsland to be kept connected to the grid and for all three reactors to run until 2024.

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Source: spiegel

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