Traffic and climate
CDU state chief demands “plain text” from Merz to burn
More and more electric cars are to roll on European roads. An important target date is 2035. Now the voices from the Union are increasing, which question the burner.
According to Markus Söder, the Baden-Württemberg CDU boss Manuel Hagel also warned of one for new cars with an internal combustion engine in 2035. “The EU’s combustion agent has to go. It damages the innovation, weakens our industry, endangers thousands of jobs-and does not bring anything to our climate,” he told the German press agency after a conversation between the Union faction leader from the federal government, the federal states and EU Parliament with Chancellor Friedrich Merz (CDU) on Monday evening in Berlin.
Hagel asked the Chancellor on behalf of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group leader of the federal states to talk to EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen “plain language” about the burner. “It is now about representing German interests. For this we need a change of course in European automotive policy.” Hagel leads the Baden-Württemberg state parliamentary group and is the chairman of the Union parliamentary group chairman conference.
CSU boss Markus Söder had renewed his demand at the weekend to tip the EU-wide cars planned from 2035 with internal combustion engines in order to support the cravilating German auto industry. Hagel said that “open technology, entrepreneurial freedom and fair rules for all drives” are now necessary. “Our manufacturers don’t need a policy that explains how a car works.”
dpa
Source: Stern
