Parliament turns a deaf ear to criticism from EU partners who do not support this solution for an energy conflict that is continental
The Bundestag, the federal parliament, this Friday approved an energy rescue umbrella for Germany worth 200,000 million euros; a measure criticized by many of the European Union’s partners for seeing it as an unsupportive and national solution to a continental problem. The deputies of the ruling tripartite of Social Democrats, Greens and Liberals secured a large majority in the House vote for the new law, recently drafted by the government of Chancellor Social Democrat Olaf Scholz. “This is the basic condition for us to have a brake on gas prices by March at the latest,” said Matthias Miersch, deputy chairman of the SPD parliamentary group. The aim of the initiative is to feed the 200,000 million euros that will already be financed this year from credits into the so-called Economic Stability Fund (WSF) created during the coronavirus pandemic, which will be adapted to the new needs.
To take on the new credits, the lower house had to identify the emergency situation the country is experiencing in the face of the energy crisis unleashed by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. This makes it possible to avoid compliance this year with the so-called “debt brake”, the constitutional duty of German executives to avoid increased debt and the obligation to reduce existing debt.
Federal Finance Minister, Liberal Christian Lindner, is confident that Germany will return to normal next year and that it will be possible to comply with its constitutional obligation. The conservative opposition of Bavarian Christian Democrats and Social Christians had already announced in advance that it would reject the initiative. Mathías Middelberg, number two of his parliamentary group, criticized the passing of the law for the lack of concepts on the part of the executive to curb and stabilize gas and electricity prices.
“All they want is to have a bag of money in this government’s basement and then they’re going to think about what to do with it,” Middelberg said in the debate ahead of the vote, which cast doubt on the government’s constitutionality. drawn. new law. The deputies of the Left, who criticized the Tripartite for its lack of social objectives in dealing with the energy crisis, as well as the ultranationalists and Eurosceptics of Alternative for Germany, who were in favor of the lifting of all sanctions against Moscow for the invasion of Ukraine , recover the supply of Russian gas and make peace with President Vladimir Putin, making unacceptable concessions to the rest of Germany’s political formations.
Source: La Verdad
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