BERLIN (dpa-AFX) – Federal Minister of Economics Robert Habeck believes it is possible that the decision to accelerate planning will be slowed down by the fact that the lengthy discussion process of the traffic light coalition will be continued at state level. “There is a risk, of course,” said the Greens politician on Wednesday evening in ZDF’s “Heute Journal”. The background is that an overriding public interest in accelerated infrastructure planning should be established in agreement with the country concerned.
“Of course, a lot of the implementation takes place at state or municipal level,” said Habeck. This applies to the motorway expansion originally rejected by the Greens as well as to nature and environmental protection, which is also a matter for the federal states. From Habeck’s point of view, it is therefore important that the three traffic light parties have an appropriate effect on the lower levels. He hopes that “respect for what we actually have to deal with will also help us to advise or motivate our levels in such a way that we say: Ok, now forward, we have agreed, now we can do something else hope and expect and work towards making agreements happen.”
The Greens were only able to push through a small part of their positions against the SPD and FDP. In his own words, Habeck does not believe that the critics of the compromise, for example in the environmental groups, see his party to blame. “In any case, they’re not mad at the Greens,” he said. “Isn’t it actually the case that one can perhaps even be almost proud that we have the power to get a government working again. Well, I don’t know where the accusation is supposed to be.”/and/DP /hey