Support for opposition to EU law
The ban on fuel engines in passenger cars from 2035 cannot yet be ratified, partly because of Germany. The German minister who is obstructive in the EU can probably count on a lot of support in his own country. A poll shows a large majority of Germans against the ban.
Actually, it should have already been voted on, but the ban has not yet been hammered out, partly due to German resistance in the European Parliament. In short, Germany wants to look into an exception for fuel engines that run on synthetic fuels.
As it turns out, there is very little support for the ban in Germany at all. Not entirely unimportant: at least 850,000 people work in the German car industry. Almost 70 percent of those polled in a German poll by RTL/N-TV oppose the ban on the sale of petrol and diesel cars that the EU wants in 2035, it now appears. Only 14 percent are in favor and 12 percent only agree if exceptions can be made. And 68 percent are against the ban.
Last autumn, the governments of the EU countries and the European Parliament agreed in principle on the measure to only sell passenger cars that do not emit CO2 by 2035, but the German governing party FDP in particular wants a guarantee that not only the EV and fuel cell car has a future in the EU, but also cars with a combustion engine on sustainable fuel. Opposition to the imminent ban is also rising in other EU countries, particularly in Italy and Poland.
Discord
On Monday, a journalist asked FDP Finance Minister Christian Lindner about the matter at a press conference. Social Democratic Chancellor Olaf Scholz, who was also present, hurried to get ahead of his minister and answered the question himself. According to Scholz, Berlin is still waiting for a proposal from the European Commission to indicate how cars with combustion engines using sustainable fuels will be dealt with after 2035. This sounded like music to the truncated FDP minister, but the Green economy and climate minister standing next to them, Robert Habeck, may not have liked it. His party accuses the FDP of unjustly blocking the EU agreement on the ban of new fossil fuel vehicles, thereby portraying Germany as an unreliable partner in the EU.
As mentioned, the Italian government is also not pleased with the total ban on cars with combustion engines. There, Finance Minister Adolfo Urso has said that the total ban in 2035 “does not correspond to the European reality and certainly not to the Italian reality”.
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