News Digest Item
19 Jul 2017

“Green crowbar”

Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

In an opinion piece for Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Martin Gropp argues that the Green Party's proposal for a ban on the combustion engine is heavy handed, and relying on incentives and carmakers' ingenuity would be more fruitful. “A ban on a whole technology unnecessarily limits carmakers’ room to manoeuvre," he writes. "To use competition and specify the political goals for climate and health protection in a technology-neutral way would be more appropriate for a market economy."

Read the opinion piece in German .

For background, read the 淨 dossiers The Energiewende and German carmakers and The energy transition's effect on jobs and business.

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