The tips of the Grand coalition have agreed in a late-night marathon session on a package of measures against Diesel-driving bans in German cities. Details will be communicated in the course of the day.
The agreement announced by the group Chairman of the CDU and the SPD, Ralph Brinkhaus, and Andrea Nahles, as well as the CSU land group chief Alexander Dobrindt after six and a half hours of negotiations in Berlin’s Chancellery. Details of the “concept for clean air and the securing of personal mobility in our cities” would explain to the relevant Minister, in the course of the day.
On the question of whether the agreement provides for the offer of the technical retrofitting of older Diesel Cars, said Nahles: “there is the agreement.” For more details was not immediately known. Before the deliberations had told me that there would be a combination of exchange premiums for older people in newer Cars and offers technical retrofitting.
Difficult struggle to find a solution
At the Meeting, it had been a difficult struggle to find solutions for Diesel-driver, which in several German cities is a driving threatens to ban. At the core of the discussions between the Union and the SPD to new sales incentives to the car manufacturers of several Thousand euros, so that more owners will replace their older Diesel by cleaner cars.
Particularly, it is hooked at the point of retrofit of diesel cars and the financing and liability, if, for example, catalyst systems retrofitted. That’s especially the SPD had insisted, as many of the citizens could also help with the purchase of premiums is not a new car.
The government wants to prove ability to act
According to the most recent government crises, the Union and the SPD wanted to be with an understanding, ability to act, to prove. In Bavaria and Hesse, are elected in this month the country in a new way. After the diesel summit of the Federal government and the car industry in 2017, the German manufacturer had placed rewards of up to 10,000 euros. This took more than 200,000 customers, as it was called in July. This effect was not enough for the government.
Generally speaking, customers can expect when buying a car with discounts of a few Thousand euros. The background for the new measures to dirty air in many German cities. Diesel exhaust is a major contributor. Therefore, bans on older Diesel-threatening driving.
In Hamburg already two locked sections. In Stuttgart In 2019, a large-scale entry ban is planned. Recently, a court ordered driving prohibitions for the downtown commuter metropolis of Frankfurt am Main from 2019. The EU Commission also pressure and trying to force Germany, by an action before the European court of justice for compliance with the limit values that have been with us since 2010.
gri/nob (dpa, rtr, afp)