Green Party ready to compromise on coal exit timing, cars
The German Greens have signalled their readiness to make concessions on core policy demands in the field of climate protection for the sake of advancing the stagnant coalition talks with Chancellor Angela Merkel鈥檚 conservative CDU/CSU alliance and the pro-business FDP, media reports suggest. The Greens鈥 co-leader, Cem 脰zdemir, told the Stuttgarter Zeitung that his party was ready to relinquish its key transport policy demand of banning the fresh registration of cars with fossil combustion engines after 2030. 鈥淚鈥檓 aware that we cannot enforce a 2030 end date for licensing fossil combustion engines all by ourselves鈥, 脰zdemir said.
His fellow party co-leader, Simone Peter, said that the Greens鈥 core climate policy demand of ending coal-fired power production by 2030 was likewise not irrevocable. 鈥淔or us, it鈥檚 not about whether the last coal plants goes off the grid in 2030 or in 2032鈥, she told the Rheinische Post. The party leaders鈥 statements are seen as part of a give-and-take approach towards the Greens鈥 鈥楯amaica coalition鈥 negotiating partners, who say that these policies would put Germany鈥檚 energy supply security and economic competitiveness in jeopardy.
Read the article in the Stuttgarter Zeitung in German and the article in the Rheinische Post in German .
For background on the talks check out 威力彩玩法鈥檚 Coalition watch and the articles German coalition talks stuck over climate, energy policy and Combustion engine ban splitting point in coalition talks on transport.
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