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Activists glued to the red carpet of the Berlinale film festival in Berlin
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The climate group Last Generation is offering a halt to its protests across the country but insists the federal government act on their demands.
"We have clearly communicated the conditions for this: the reintroduction of the 9-euro ticket, a speed limit of 100 km/h on motorways and the convening of a social council on the question of how we can achieve zero emissions by 2030," said their spokesman Jakob Beyer.
"Clear demands were made from the start" that were easy to implement, socially just and cheap.
According to him, 1,000 to 1,500 people have now joined the group's "peaceful civil resistance".
The background is the end of the adhesive protests in Hanover promised this week.
There Mayor Belit Onay (Greens) assured the activists after a meeting that they would support their demand for a social council with a letter to the democratic parliamentary groups.
According to the ideas of the climate protectors, such a council of randomly drawn people should develop measures to ensure that Germany no longer emits any climate-damaging CO₂ by 2030.
Beyer said this would also be possible at the federal level, but this was not addressed.
This strengthened the group's view that "the federal government either cannot or does not want to react appropriately to the crisis and protect our livelihoods." The group acts on the condition that its protest is credible and reliable.
This also includes ending the protest if the demands are met.
After the locally agreed stop of the protests in Hanover, talks about corresponding agreements are also underway in other cities.
The group, which was founded at the end of 2021, blocked motorway access in Berlin for the first time on January 24, 2022.
Thereafter, with interruptions, such blockades followed almost daily, as well as protests in museums, stadiums, at oil pipelines and airports.
According to the website, the name explains itself as follows: »We are the last generation that can still stop the collapse of our society.«
kig/dpa