Traffic and climate
CDU head of state expects Merz “plain text” 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.
There was an objection from the deputy chairman of the SPD parliamentary group, Armand Zorn. “Anyone who questions the exit from the fossil burner may receive applause at short notice, but endangers the long -term competitiveness of our country and unsettles the economy, said Zorn. German companies showed the technologies for the future at the IAA auto show in Munich. Germany can continue to claim its top position in the future.
Hagel demands “change of course in European automotive policy”
Hagel now expects Chancellor Friedrich Merz (CDU) to be clearly positioned towards EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen. The Union’s parliamentary group leader had “strengthened his back to the Chancellor to speak to Ms. von der Leyen plain text,” he said. “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.
Söder had reopened debate at the weekend
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.”
The SPD politician Zorn criticized, unexpected political maneuvers like those of Söder braked investments and already damaged the industry itself. The future of the automotive industry was electrically in almost all applications.
dpa
Source: Stern
