Former German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder warned against subordinating climate protection to anything else. „I do not want to dispute that this is an important aspect. But that almost the entire political debate is dominated by the climate issue, I go too far, „said the 75-year-old the“ Handelsblatt „(Saturday edition).
„The popular parties have always managed to answer a broad catalog of social questions: what about our competitiveness? How is our education system ordered? How can we keep pace with digitization? These are important questions. But currently everything is covered by the climate debate. “
„In the long run that will not be enough“
This explains the soaring of the Greens in the polls. „My prognosis, however, is that in the long run that will not be enough to sustain this republic,“ he said.
The sustainability strategies of the German car industry attacked Schröder, who was sitting as a Lower Saxony Prime Minister in the VW Supervisory Board: „Where previously thought too little about electric mobility, it is now partly exaggerated.“ With regard to the reference that VW now fully on Schröder warned: „It will be forgotten that the diesel will be an important aggregate for many, many years. It can not be true that established automobile manufacturers are pushing into a corner. Management should be able to say: we still need time and should promote one thing and the other. „
