Marc Bernhard, May 24, 2023, Heating Policy

German Bundestag, Plenarprotokoll 20/105, pp. 12701-12702.

Frau President. Ladies and gentlemen.

“We have erred in regards the energy transition”.

            Jürgen Coße (SPD): You have erred in regards Putin!

Who said that ten years ago already? No climate denier, no conspiracy theorist and no AfD politician. No, it was Habeck’s dismissed State Secretary Graichen, whom he last week dismissed as one of those who ran the energy transition. Graichen ten years ago verbatim:

We have erred in regards the energy transition. Not in a few details, but in a central point. The many…windmills and solar installations which Germany is building do not do what we have promised for them. It was hoped that they would replace the dirty coal power plants…Yet they do not do that…

 

If Graichen thus knew ten years ago that the energy transition does not work, why then has it been with all power forced through? Why was agriculture and species protection annulled by emergency decree, the fought-for minimum distance between dwellings eliminated, the environmental compatibility testing disempowered and the consultation rights of citizens eliminated so as to make possible the construction of an additional 90,000 wind industry installations, and thereby maximize the damages of the self-confessed errors, Herr Habeck?

Although Graichen knew exactly that the energy transition does not at all work, he wanted, in your motion, Herr Habeck, with the heating hammer to force more than 60 million people in the future to heat only with electricity. He nevertheless quite clearly knew that there was not sufficient electricity for that due to the shutdown of nuclear and coal power plants. Thus for example Germany’s largest housing company cannot operate countless electric heating pumps because of the lack of electricity. He nevertheless quite knowingly wrote the draft law that, for most people, only the installation of a heating pump is possible – and that, even though heating with electricity is around 30 percent more expensive than with gas. It’s good that such a person is gone!

Yet now this heating hammer must also go, and indeed completely. Since it is completely absurd that people shall be forbidden to heat with gas while the government at the same time wants to build 50 gas power plants with which it is desired, with dirty fracking gas, to generate electricity which will in the future warm the people. What an absurdity!

            Bernhard Herrmann (Greens): That is nonsense!

As I calculated for you in April that this heating hammer would cost people 2,000 billion euros, you here in the German Bundestag looked at me in disbelief and shook your heads. Now you yourselves of the FDP quite obviously have re-considered and even come to 2,500 billion euros, thus 30,000 euros per capita. Scientists confirm that with that it still comes not once to a savings of CO₂. The imbecility was nevertheless confirmed by your FDP colleagues – who have reconsidered: 2,500 billion euros.

Yet one thing is clear: The heating transition is not doable; since we do not have sufficient heating pumps, we do not have sufficient tradesmen, we do not have sufficient electricity and the people certainly do not have sufficient money so as to pay for this craziness.

Now come you of the CDU to play at being the nation’s saviours and ostensibly want a socially acceptable re-start of the heating transition. As to what you understand as “social”, have you clearly and distinctly indicated with your motion in the last sitting. You therein set out to make the Brussels CO₂ certificate for oil and gas so expensive that the people practically can no longer afford oil and gas. Experts proceed therefrom to that by 2027 it comes to a tenfold increase of CO₂ prices and up to 300 euros per ton. For a liter of diesel, that means a price increase of almost one euro. That is what you of the CDU understand as “socially acceptable”.

The only thing that is really socially acceptable and which protects people from old age poverty and a de facto expropriation is to dispose of this entire heating transition on the dung heap of history.

 

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Leif-Erik Holm, May 17, 2023, Economy Ministry

AfD Kompakt, May 17, 2023.

Graichen’s departure was overdue. With him, the Economy Ministry developed into a ministry for nepotism and the defense of cliques. And in that regard, it has long since not only been about the best man affair. The award of contracts in the millions to the eco-lobby and the Graichens’ numerous, close connections of kindred and friends to those benefited has led to a massive loss of trust.

Habeck may with the decision have now hit the emergency brake – as a minister, he is nevertheless impaired. He is quite clearly up against it and must allow the question why for a week after the inquiry in committee he still adhered to Graichen and what now has led to his sudden change of mind. Possibly there threatens to rise up still more from the green swamp of favors. For example, that the Graichen siblings’ Öko-Institut has received alone in this legislative period from Federal ministers and Federal officials orders of approximately twelve million euros; before all, from the Economy Ministry, as my inquiry to the Federal government has brought to light.

Habeck must finally make a clean slate and clear out all the green sleeze and subordinated officials in his ministry. In that regard, the AfD will gladly help him and move for an investigating committee for this ever expanding affair.

 

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Gottfried Curio, May 11, 2023, Immigration and Politics

German Bundestag, Plenarprotokoll 20/103, pp. 12394-12395.

Right honorable President. Ladies and gentlemen.

The Ampel grandly announced in the coalition contract a repatriation offensive, yet for which certainly the thereto belonging FDP announcements party did not deliver. The number of deportations is far less than even before the pandemic. There is simply no migration agreement for the return of rejected asylum applicants. The show agreement with India does not function. In regards over 800 Indians without a pass who in Sachsen-Anhalt are liable for repatriation, nothing happens. Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq, Morocco – generally nothing. The theme of “Dublin Repatriations in other EU Countries”: It in the last year failed by far over 90 percent.   

What does the standstill coalition do? They set up new incentives for additional migration and secondary migration to Germany: Extension of social benefits, extended rights to remain, an abolition of revocation checking. This naturally intensifies already existing repatriation problems. SPD Interior Minister Faeser positions herself against even the EU with her rejection of a visa lever against uncooperative states of origin; actually just as needed as the reduction of development aid. There lacks any political will for enforcement – similarly as in regards the acknowledgment of the Maghreb states as secure states of origin – blocked by the governing party of the Greens, supported by the FDP. Toss out those who sustain the government! Its time as well is past, for the people have noted how the dangerous fanaticism of this eco-dictatorship sect in its deterioration coalition squashes the citizens’ interests.

The Union’s answer: A mix of right and wrong. Naturally, it is right to take over the AfD’s years-long demands. How reliable that is, each can judge when you previously rejected these same demands made by the AfD. But, ja, it requires the repatriations offensive, bilateral return agreements. Only how the FDP announcements party speaks of that does not suffice. Naturally, the EU visa lever needs to be on the table, those considered a danger and obliged to depart, and criminals, need to be deported. Certainly the same is required for Iraq, Syria, Eritrea, Somalia. In any case, it’s a good idea to agree with the AfD demands, ladies and gentlemen.   

Certainly the actual deportation policy in the Union’s 16 years in government unfortunately indicates no essentially different picture from that of today’s government. When you announce to shortly again form a coalition with exactly these Ampel parties against which these ostensibly oppositional demands should be directed, then the voters note that and, in case of doubt, prefer to vote for the original.  

Certainly then no one needs what is further in your motion: To financially strengthen the promotion of voluntary returns by means of counseling centers in foreign countries. Financially promoted voluntary departures scarcely work; some again re-enter. From the net asylum application benefits, money is sent home. This needs to be converted to benefits in kind, as for long demanded by the AfD. Only thus will one of the most important incentive factors be finally eliminated. The migration change, ladies and gentlemen, comes only with the AfD.

Simply summarized: That which in your motion is good and right, is from the AfD; what is not from it, is not good.

Ladies and gentlemen, a majority of Germans want that finally fewer migrants be admitted. A majority say: The current admissions policy brings primarily disadvantages for Germany. Other countries simply make policy for their own citizens. Denmark self-evidently permits judicial deportations to Syria, just as does Hungary. Yet it happens here with us in Germany, to where one million Syrians from foreign countries could suddenly be brought, to indeed be left here at the cost of our working people, there are just no negotiations on a migration agreement – which the Union also does not want.  

In that regard, the civil war there is long since at an end – not in the Union, but in Syria. Here is finally required a policy primarily in the interests of German citizens. That is only with the AfD. We therefore say to you, ladies and gentlemen: It’s not the heating that needs to be exchanged, but this government!

I thank you.

 

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Gunnar Beck, May 9, 2023, Scholz in Brussels

AfD Kompakt, May 9, 2023.

Who like Germany suffers from helper’s syndrome can accept no leadership role in Europe and overtake responsibility for the the future of the continent. Chancellor Scholz’s demand in his speech is amiss.

Germany in the past has in regards migration, the euro and now the Ukraine often sought to help other countries and to find solutions for their problems without thereby sufficiently taking into consideration its own interests. It has thereby neglected its own needs and harmed itself. This relationship is not only detrimental for Germany itself but also for Europe as a whole.

It is time that Germany freed itself from this helper’s syndrome and concentrated itself on its own interests and needs. Only so can it in the long-term contribute to Europe’s welfare. That would be an authentic day of liberation for Germany and a day of celebration for Europe.

I therefore demand of the German government to pursue a new policy which is based on a realistic valuation of its own interests and needs. Only so can Germany, conscious of its responsibility, play a constructive role in Europe.

 

[trans: tem]