Green Party leader Werner Kogler is optimistic in the run-up to the EU elections. The designated top candidate Lena Schilling is “the best choice”; the goal for June 9 is to maintain the previous three mandates. He divides himself heavily towards the “right-wing threats to European unification”.
The fact that 23-year-old eco-activist Schilling was voted number one on the list at the Green Federal Congress in Graz on Saturday is “great news” for climate protection and young people. This would allow the Greens to be offensive even in difficult times. ‘She mobilizes within the Greens, but also outside’, and there is ‘sensational feedback’.
Constructive forces needed
Kogler contrasted the ‘banter’ of Europe’s right-wing populists and extremists, who were ‘only interested in problems rather than solutions’, with the ‘constructive European forces’. As Greens you can provide advice on how environmental and climate protection can be reconciled with the economy and social security. It is about developing European industry “into something great green” and continuing to fulfill people’s legitimate desire for intact nature.
Green Party Leader Sigrid Maurer in the “Rainer Nowak Talk” on krone.tv about the Greens in the government, the “challenging” relationship with the ÖVP and the possibilities after the upcoming National Council elections:
Kogler sees enough alliance partners to make this a majority: ‘I’m still seeing whether the Social Democrats and Conservatives can still afford to say that they don’t care about nature.’ He also includes the liberals here.
“Without the EU billions, Hungary would be completely destroyed”
On the other hand, there were the “threats to European unification” that attacked liberal democracy. He cited Hungary as a negative example. “Without the tens of billions from the EU, they would have been completely wiped out,” Kogler said. He quoted former Hungarian minister Bálint Magyar of the ‘Democracy Institute’ in Budapest, who even spoke of a ‘mafia state’.
Big guns against blue “Putin brothers”
In Austria, Kogler sees that the “Putin brothers” of Herbert Kickl’s FPÖ are trapped in the cycle of “opposition bank – government bank – dock”. SPÖ leader Andreas Babler considers SPÖ leader Andreas Babler’s finding that Kickl not only does not love people, but also himself, as accurate in light of the FPÖ leader’s “crushed, toxic hopping around”: “This is a toxic dwarfism of party leaders. Kogler said.
Source: Krone
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