German
Bundestag, October 1, 2020, Plenarprotokoll 19/180, pp. 22745-22746.
Right
honorable Frau President. Right honorable colleagues. Dear spectators in the
hall and on YouTube.
Today
concerns the estimate [Etat] of the
Federal Ministry for Education and Research for fiscal year 2021. It is the
same for this estimate as for the entire budget: Where is the required
consolidation concept? The government delegations of the Union and the SPD make
debts, debts and yet more debts and thereby wish to distribute large-scale
election gifts in the election year 2021 at the cost of coming generations. That
is irresponsible.
Götz Frömming (AfD): And how!
It
is also the case in the field of education and research. The estimate may
indeed be 70 million euros smaller than in this year. Yet here are to be
discerned no efforts to reduce in any way the new indebtedness or to place for
once basically all expenditures under examination. We have no share in this
debt orgy.
However
we will do our job, Frau Karliczek, and will show with our motions to amend
where the money in your estimate is being thrown out the window.
I
might be permitted to address two things today. One of which is the national
hydrogen strategy to which you indeed have referred. This is the new holy cow
in the fight against climate change. This proposal is nothing other than the
introduction of an eco-socialist planned economy on Federal German territory.
Karamba Diaby (SPD): Boring. Always
the same terminology. Isn’t that boring?
It
should be thought that the CDU and SPD politicians have learned something from
their epic failure of breakdowns at the BER airport. Fourteen years
construction time, six broken opening dates,
Yasmin Fahimi (SPD): We are speaking
on the Federal budget!
total
costs of 6.4 billion euros and thereby three times more expensive than
originally planned.
Gabriele Katzmarek (SPD): Wrong
function!
This
story of incompetence shows that the state is not the better businessman.
What
has our insane government learned from that? Nothing, absolutely nothing. Since
it is desired to now repeat these failures, and this time drive to the wall
entire sectors of the economy. Yes, hydrogen will be one of the basic
components of a future energy supply.
Kai Gehring (Greens): How can one
with such a logic become a doctor?
Yet
that the Federal government itself now wishes to become a businessman will lead
to an incineration of money on an unheard of scale. On that account, we demand
that Federal government be thrifty here and leave this segment of the market to
the private sector.
The
government can willingly invest in basic research on the subject of hydrogen,
and it certainly is doing so. Yet on the whole, we invest much too little in
basic research. That is indicated especially by the other important subject,
the second of which I wanted to address: Nuclear energy. Around the world,
there are at this moment improvements in nuclear energy and research into new
reactor concepts. Fourth generation nuclear reactors are safer than all
previous ones
Karamba Diaby (SPD): Safer?
and
can radically neutralize our disposal problem, by which atomic waste can be
used for energy production.
Yet
in Germany, none dare approach this taboo. Not one of you allowed research to
be permitted in the field. All of you here close your eyes to the giant
potentialities which can make our energy supply clean, safe and advantageous
for all.
Vice-president Claudia Roth: Herr colleague, do you
allow an interim question or remark?
The
same as a brief intervention. I would prefer now to continue.
Vice-president Claudia Roth: Good.
You
do all that out of pure angst and ideological delusion.
Timon Gremmels (SPD): Of your
delegation?
We
of the AfD Bundestag delegation are clearly in favor of nuclear power and new
reactor research.
And
we are the only ones who see it so. It was the former Federal Chancellor Helmut
Schmidt of the SPD who said the following – I cite:
I find it astonishing that among all the great industrial states of the world – from the U.S.A. to China, Japan and Russia – the Germans are the only ones who believe they could get along without nuclear power. We have practically given up our coal mining, we have as good as no oil in the ground and nothing off our coasts. It is therefore obvious that Germany is to obtain part of its energy from nuclear power.
Götz Frömming (AfD): A good man!
René Röspel (SPD): Out of an old
newspaper!
That
comes from the former SPD chancellor. We should all think over these words and
be more open to and courageous in research.
Many
thanks for your attention.
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