The Greens, along with Habeck and Baerbock, are retreating to a retreat.
Before that, there was an audible crunch around the party – especially when it came to climate policy.
Weimar/Munich - The Greens go into retreat: The parliamentary group - together with the party's own ministers Robert Habeck, Annalena Baerbock and Lisa Paus - wants to take stock and ram substantive pegs in for three days from Tuesday afternoon (March 21).
That also seems sorely needed: from the combustion engine to deportations to Afghanistan to the federal budget, the Greens are at the center of tough disputes in the traffic light coalition.
Zoff also seems to be coming to a head around the date in Thuringia: a group of guests has left the Greens parliamentary group.
And thus put a hot topic even higher on the agenda.
According to the eco-party, can the majority of voters in the country be taken along with climate policy?
Bang before Green retreat with Habeck and Baerbock: Also symbolically important guests jump off
Most recently, it was Minister of Economics Habeck's heating and electricity network plans that, among other things, brought the CSU to the barricades before the Bavarian election campaign.
That alone would not necessarily be a problem.
But a current survey could also unsettle the Greens: For the first time in years, the party around Habeck and Baerbock has fallen behind the AfD in a Sunday question.
With a loud bang, the Greens lost the group works council that was actually invited to the East German energy and lignite company Leag: it canceled its participation in the exam.
The chairman, Uwe Teubner, and his deputy, Toralf Smith, were reacting to a draft resolution from the parliamentary group that became known over the weekend.
This also provides for a coal phase-out from 2030 for the east of the Federal Republic.
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Not in line with the FDP: Robert Habeck, Annalena Baerbock and Lisa Paus (from left) travel to the Green retreat in Weimar.
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The exam should deal with climate protection, social change and cohesion, among other things.
The exchange with coal workers from the east would have been symbolically very welcome.
Green retreat in Weimar: Union reprimands "always the same pattern" - "ideology and debt fantasy"
Before the Greens meeting, the Union boldly hit the climate policy notch.
Climate protection could only succeed "with the people and not against them," said Union Parliament Secretary Thorsten Frei of the
Rheinische Post
.
"The resolutions that are to be made at the retreat always show the same green pattern: First, the citizens are burdened with completely unattainable goals, which are then to be flanked with unaffordable subsidies in a second step," he reprimanded - and attested a "mixture of Ideology and Debt Fantasy”.
The politics of the Greens unsettle people.
In the meantime, the Greens are hoping for a quick settlement of the Zoff with the FDP and Transport Minister Volker Wissing when it comes to phasing out combustion engines.
"I assume that the issue will be resolved before the summit," said Minister of State for Europe Anna Lührmann on Tuesday in Brussels.
The Liberals urgently want to allow combustion cars powered by so-called e-fuels after 2035, while the Greens are opposed to this plan.
The German dispute had recently (for the time being) even prevented an EU decision on the subject.
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Traffic light coalition: The Scholz cabinet at a glance
Traffic light coalition: The Scholz cabinet at a glance
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