CDU Economic Council: “Banning the combustion engine will end technology still in demand worldwide”

Status: 04:47 AM| Reading time: 2 minutes

DrThe CDU Economic Council sees the expiration of the registration of new vehicles with internal combustion engines planned by SPD, Greens and FDP as a risk to the German industrial site. “The ban on the combustion engine will end technology still in demand worldwide and which would be a climate-neutral option with synthetic fuels,” the Secretary-General of the Economic Council, Wolfgang Steiger, told the Augsberger Allgemeine newspaper.

The problem is not with the internal combustion engine, but with the fuel. “We have to be very careful that our climate policy does not lead to deindustrialization rather than decarbonization.” who, as commuters, often rely on their own cars to get to their workplaces from the countryside to the city. “

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04:36 – Ischinger warns against withdrawing US atomic bombs from Germany

Security expert Wolfgang Ischinger has warned against questioning Germany’s participation in NATO’s nuclear deterrent. In light of the ongoing coalition negotiations between the SPD, the Green Party and the Free Democratic Party, the head of the Munich Security Conference told the German news agency that the withdrawal of American atomic bombs from Germany would have serious consequences for security in Europe: “We are pulling the rug out from the Poles in terms of politics Underfoot security when Germany withdraws from nuclear deterrence.

Ischinger warned that Poland might then insist on placing atomic bombs on its soil. “An active Polish role in NATO’s nuclear deterrent will also have consequences in Moscow that I don’t even want to think about,” he said. I think the consequences will be catastrophic. NATO will get closer to Russia when it comes to nuclear energy. “And little thought was given to the German discussions.