Volt wants to close the IJmuiden steel producer Tata Steel and turn the former Hoogovens into a sustainable Tata city. “Tata Steel symbolizes the old model: large, polluting and depending on subsidies. We opt for a new model: clean, honest and future-oriented,” said Volt party leader Laurens Dassen on Tuesday morning at the presentation of the election program.
With ‘Do something new’, the Pro-European party will go into the parliamentary elections this fall. Volt believes that the Indian company Tata Steel has had its chance to make it more sustainable. “We save [met de sluiting] Every year 33 billion liters of water and ensure that CO2 emissions fall by 8%. ” With Tata Stad, Dassen said, “said” in green innovation and employment, and in sustainable homes for the home -seeking twenties in the attic with her parents “.
Volt, which can currently count on two to four seats according to the last polling guide, will continue to strive for a nearby future in which on balance no more greenhouse gases are emitted. In 2040, the Netherlands must be climate neutral, while in 2030 no new fossil cars may be sold five years earlier than Europe that intends. New gas and oil drilling are no longer allowed.
According to Volt, the future lies in nuclear energy. The party supports the construction of two large nuclear power plants, which the Rutte IV cabinet already decided. In addition, the election program for “several new, small nuclear power plants spread throughout the country” states. These so -called SMRs (Small Modular Reactors) could be placed in industrial complexes and current-consuming producers of artificial intelligence (‘AI factories’).
European Silicon Valley
Just like in Belgium, Volt, with two seats represented in the current House of Representatives, wants to include animal welfare as a state objective in the Constitution. In this way, the liberal party wants to give more weight “to the interests of animals in future legislation, policy development and in case law”.
Offering a basic income (“a fixed amount per household, without complicated conditions”) and the development of a European Silicon Valley will remain spearheads for Volts. To Silicon Europe Getting off the ground, tech companies that hardly pay any taxes here must do so in the future. “Too often we lose talent to America and China, where there is investment in good ideas,” said Dassen.
This spring, badgers argued in it NRC Before Europe gets its own nuclear weapons, now that the old American patron is “strongly on Germany of the 1930s”. That is a good reason to jointly maintain and finance the nuclear weapons of France. “That’s how we are protected as Europe,” Dassen said in May.
The formation of a European army is also further elaborated in the election program. “By investing together in Defense in the EU, we save costs and work more efficiently.” In addition to its own army, there must also be a European space agency for military goals, but also for civilian, “such as emergency communication and climate monitoring.”
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