“Big changes are ahead of us”: According to Olaf Scholz, structural change can only be achieved together. The “Alliance for Transformation” starts with a kick-off meeting in the Chancellery.
In order to cope with the structural change in Germany, Chancellor Olaf Scholz is seeking to close ranks with business associations, trade unions and environmental groups.
“Big changes are ahead of us,” said the SPD politician on Tuesday in Berlin at the opening meeting of an “Alliance for Transformation” in the Chancellery. This can only be achieved together. It is about Germany remaining globally competitive and becoming CO2-neutral.
At the start of the alliance, the main focus was on the energy transition, i.e. the conversion from fossil to renewable energies from wind and sun. Industry President Siegfried Russwurm said the goal of climate neutrality was clear. “What we lack is speed.” The conversion will cause high costs, he made clear. The DGB chairwoman Yasmin Fahimi said that it was about a restructuring for more employment and “qualitative” growth as well as more co-determination and greater collective bargaining coverage for companies. Kai Niebert, President of the German Nature Conservation Ring, said it was about dissolving the “mildew”. A new style of politics is needed that doesn’t look for the lowest common denominator.
The SPD, Greens and FDP had announced the transformation alliance in their coalition agreement. In the first half of 2022, “stable and reliable framework conditions” for the transformation should be discussed. Germany wants to become climate neutral by 2045. To do this, production processes in the steel industry, for example, must be fundamentally restructured.
Source: Stern
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