Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s (SPD) word of power on nuclear power plants met with clear criticism from the Greens in Lower Saxony. “The fact that Olaf Scholz has withdrawn the directive competence for a limited continued operation of the Emsland nuclear power plant is unnecessary and without any technical basis,” said the Green politicians Julia Willie Hamburg and Christian Meyer in a statement distributed on Tuesday. This would block the expansion and use of renewable energies.
“The chancellor’s approach of drawing guidelines on the issue and thus not agreeing on a common approach is highly irritating.” The additional amount of electricity from the Emsland nuclear power plant is minimal. After the state elections in Lower Saxony, the SPD and the Greens are currently in talks about a coalition in the state.
The remaining three German nuclear power plants should be able to continue operating until mid-April next year at the latest. Scholz decided that on Monday. The Greens wanted to keep the two southern German nuclear power plants Isar 2 and Neckarwestheim 2 in reserve until April 15 and continue to use them to generate electricity if necessary. The third remaining Emsland nuclear power plant in Lower Saxony, on the other hand, was to be finally shut down on January 1, 2023.
The German construction company Wolff Hoch- und Ingenieurbau has to file for bankruptcy 125 years after it was founded. This is due to staff and material shortages.
As a result of the flood disaster in the Ahr Valley, Interior Minister Roger Lewentz (SPD) has already resigned. The CDU is also demanding political consequences for Prime Minister Malu Dreyer (SPD). She texted the former interior minister during the death tide. Twelve of those messages have now been released.
In the trial of the fatal shots at two police officers near Kusel in the Palatinate, the co-defendant answered questions from the court about the night of the crime at the end of January for the first time. The main defendant, however, presented a whole series of alleged lies.