Transport Minister Volker Wissing wants to have gotten involved with the combustion engine at the EU summit. According to FDP General Secretary Bijan Djir-Sarai, the topic has not yet been debated to the end.
Before the EU summit in Brussels, FDP Secretary General Bijan Djir-Sarai denied an agreement between the Federal Ministry of Transport and the EU Commission on the planned phase-out of vehicles with combustion engines. “I cannot confirm that this dispute is off the table,” said Djir-Sarai on Friday in the ZDF morning magazine. This will only be the case if the EU Commission presents a “very clear legal requirement”, according to which combustion engines with so-called e-fuels should also be in operation after 2035.
The “Spiegel” had previously reported that Transport Minister Volker Wissing was demanding a corresponding statement from the Commission – and in return would no longer demand a renegotiation of the so-called fleet limit values for the average CO2 emissions of all newly registered vehicles.
With regard to the dispute in the traffic light coalition, Djir-Sarai said that there will “always” be conflicts in the government made up of the FDP, Greens and SPD. As long as these revolved around factual issues, this was also “legitimate”. It is part of the political debate “that you have different points of view and at the end of the day these are united”.
Even after the coalition summit on Sunday, “a whole range of issues” would continue to concern the partners. In the federal government, for example, there is “no common understanding” of financial policy, the end of combustion engines or the conversion of old heating systems. It’s about “central questions”, so “an argument” is part of it.
Source: Stern
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