CDU Economic Council: “A ban on the combustion engine would end a technology that is still needed worldwide”

Dhe CDU Economic Council sees the end of the registration of new vehicles with internal combustion engines planned by the SPD, Greens and FDP as a danger to the German industrial location. “The ban on the combustion engine would end a technology that is still needed worldwide and which would be a climate-neutral option with synthetic fuels,” said the Secretary General of the Economic Council, Wolfgang Steiger, of the newspaper “Augsburger Allgemeine”.

The problem is not the internal combustion engine, but the fuels. “We have to be very careful that our climate policy does not lead to de-industrialization instead of de-carbonization.” who, as commuters, are often dependent on their own car to get to their workplaces from the countryside to the city. “

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04:36 am – Ischinger warns of the withdrawal of the US atomic bombs from Germany

The security expert Wolfgang Ischinger has warned against questioning the German participation in the nuclear deterrent of NATO. With a view to the ongoing coalition negotiations between the SPD, the Greens and the FDP, the head of the Munich Security Conference told the German Press Agency that a withdrawal of the US atomic bombs from Germany would have serious consequences for security in Europe: “We are pulling the rug off the Poles in terms of security policy underfoot when Germany pulls out of nuclear deterrence. “

Poland could then insist on the stationing of atomic bombs on its territory, warned Ischinger. “An active Polish role in NATO’s nuclear deterrent would in turn have consequences in Moscow that I don’t even want to think about,” he said. “My guess is that the consequences would be catastrophic. NATO would move even closer to Russia in terms of nuclear power. ”Far too little thought is given in the German discussion.

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