The results of the government meeting in Mauerbach received little support from the opposition. The NEOS saw “no results, just announcements”. In fact, decisions were taken, among other things, to accelerate EIA procedures, to expand renewable energy sources and to abolish blocked partial retirements – wrong priorities according to the opposition.
“As important as the expansion of renewable energy is, people who no longer know how to pay their electricity or gas bills currently have other concerns than buying a photovoltaic system,” Herbert Kickl, leader of the FPÖ, said in a broadcast. “Nehammer, Kogler & Co.” have meanwhile “apparently plunged into a parallel universe in which there is no place for people and their problems”. To deal with the everyday problems, accelerated evictions, an immediate asylum freeze and measures against “the price explosion including record inflation” are needed.
SPÖ: Government “inactive” in health system
The SPÖ also has a problem with the government’s priorities. No action was taken to lower prices. In addition, the government is “inactive” when it comes to care, safeguarding the health system and the security of supply of medicines. The urgent expansion of childcare is also blocked. The presentation of the anti-corruption package was “entirely in place”.
NEOS Secretary General Douglas Hoyos also criticized: “These were not results, they were – again – just announcements.” One would rightly expect “that the federal government is working and putting concrete decisions on the table. Austria urgently needs real reforms – no further reform working groups.” We would “never in our lives deal with energy and climate change in this way”.
After all, the Pinks welcomed the abolition of the blocked partial retirement. This is simply “an early retirement program for companies”. SPÖ spokesman Josef Muchitsch, on the other hand, spoke of the “next attack” on “those people who have been toiling for decades and just can’t do it anymore”.
As reported, the turquoise-green coalition has decided, among other things, on faster processes for power plants, the expansion of photovoltaic cells and biogas and a working group on the shortage of skilled workers. The ÖVP and the Greens have also agreed on the new anti-corruption law. What exactly will come is not yet presented.
Source: Krone
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