Not sustainable, half-baked, socially unjust: The CDU politician Thomas Strobl governs in Baden-Württemberg with the Greens, but he does not keep a good hair at the traffic lights in the federal government in the crisis.
The CDU in Baden-Württemberg has criticized the traffic light government’s handling of the energy crisis as “hooliganism”. “Every day a new proposal, every day from someone else. This is a traffic light cacophony, but no reliable crisis management and no reliable government,” said CDU state chief and interior minister Thomas Strobl of the German Press Agency in Stuttgart.
“We needed a national energy summit long ago to talk about how we’re going to get through the next few months.” Valuable time is being wasted, complained the Stuttgart Deputy Prime Minister. He could not understand the crisis policy of the federal government in many areas. “The invention of the tank discount, without any lasting effect. Many people like the nine-euro ticket, but it has no lasting effect.” The gas levy is also a “half-baked idea”: After the traffic lights made gas consumption more expensive due to the levy, the reduction in VAT should make it a little cheaper again. Strobl expects that it will be a little more expensive for most households at the end of the day. “So such a turmoil, such a back and forth in such a difficult crisis, you have to get it right first. Good governance works differently,” said the CDU politician.
Targeted help instead of a watering can
Regarding the traffic light relief packages, Strobl said he thought the “watering can policy” was wrong. “Especially when you completely forget about the pensioners. There are many pensioners here who really have to look at every euro and every cent. And that’s why they’re the first to think about, how they about come this winter.” He therefore advocates targeted relief and aid.
The CDU head of state was “amazed at how quickly a surcharge was placed on the gas consumption of all private consumers in Germany in order to be able to help a handful of large companies worth billions very quickly”. He thinks that targeted help for these large companies would have been better than holding all gas consumers, medium-sized companies, family businesses and private consumers liable.
He also thinks it’s a “serious mistake” that the government hasn’t thought about the public utilities. “Of course, the municipal utilities belong under the protective umbrella. So don’t just think about the big ones, but also the many small municipal utilities. At the end of the day, it doesn’t help the consumer if the municipal utility can no longer deliver.”
Source: Stern
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