The Greens parliamentary group meets in Potsdam for a three-day retreat. There are concrete proposals to relieve people.
The Greens parliamentary group is pushing for targeted help in view of rising prices. “Our maxim is that in the end people with low incomes will be relieved more than people with high incomes,” said co-chair Katharina Dröge in Potsdam at the start of a three-day parliamentary group meeting. Her co-chair Britta Hasselmann said that pensioners and students also need relief.
That means higher standard rates for people with basic security, explained Dröge. “We have to come to a recalculation.” In addition, the child benefit must increase, and there is a need for a successor to the 9-euro ticket. Finally, another energy flat rate is necessary. The Greens are campaigning for a regional ticket for 29 euros and a nationwide ticket for 49 euros a month.
The “connection between social and climate” is more urgent than ever, said Dröge, with a view to the hot and dry summer. The transport sector must also make its contribution. Environmentally harmful subsidies would have to be reduced, company car taxation would have to be changed.
“We, as the parliamentary group leader of the Greens in the Bundestag, say clearly: We have to come to an agreement in this coalition on a third relief package with measures that will not only take effect until next year, but also measures that will also be noticeable this year reach people,” said Dröge.
Regarding discord between the government partners SPD, Greens and FDP, Haßelmann said that “in such difficult times” when the climate crisis, Corona and Russian war of aggression on Ukraine are superimposed “sometimes there is a crunch”. “We are three different parties with very different ideas.” In the crisis, however, people rightly expected that the traffic light partners would take care of them and not themselves.
Source: Stern
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