Germany and France should address the energy transition together in order to create an “energy-Europe” – the challenge of German and French parliamentarians in a joint call to Merkel and Macron.
In a joint appeal, the DW and the French “Libération” is exclusive, 53 politicians from the Bundestag, the French national Assembly and the European Parliament, to the Public. In it, you are calling on Chancellor Angela Merkel and the French President, Emmanuel Macron, to shape the energy turnaround together and up to the end of the year, a “New Deal of the energy in Europe”.
German-French cooperation to strengthen
“The lack of coordination between France and Germany makes both losers,” write the members of Parliament, including the Greens, the Bundestag, Claudia Roth, and the French deputies of the party “La République en Marche”, Matthieu Orphelin, and. “France is in the process of its targets for renewable energies and the reduction of energy consumption, miss. Germany is lagging behind in the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions is enormous,” – said in the appeal.
The MEPs are calling on the heads of government of both countries to work together for a sovereign “energy-Europe”, which is dedicated entirely to the fight against climate change. The required “New Deal of the energy in Europe” must also be adapted to combine, in the view of the members of the German and French programs for the Energiewende, the “energy planning histories” of both countries. The authors name, especially the French goal to reduce nuclear power, as well as the shutdown of the coal-fired power plants in Germany.
Foundation for an “energy-Europe”
Specifically, the authors in their appeal to the French multi-year energy plan that determined the program of the energy revolution. This energy plan should set “the closure of a significant number of nuclear power plants”, in order to reduce the share of nuclear power in the Atommix to 50 percent. In the past year were won in France, about 72 percent of the electricity generated from nuclear power.
Germany should also be able to Coal-phase-to decide, “without the risk of nuclear power”, calling on the deputies of both countries.
“This New Deal of the energy in Europe between Emmanuel Macron and Angela Merkel could lay the Foundation of a power in Europe that would more effectively lead the necessary fight against climate change,” the Letter reads. The political decision in both countries, six months before the European elections, the energy transition together, “would show that Europe remains in a for the climate and our energy security dangerous Status quo, but specifically, for our common good is to go,” said the Deputy.
Coal Commission is preparing a proposal for Coal phase-out in Germany
In Germany, the Federal government-appointed Commission on “growth, structural change and employment prepares exit” at present, a Plan for the German Coal. The Commission is to submit in the next few weeks a proposal, the goals of the German climate as well as the elimination of thousands of Jobs, especially in the Lausitz, in the Central German area and in the Rhine area. The participants, ranging from industry to environmental organizations. An interim report to the structural change, there is already, actually, the Commission wanted to finish in the next week. Pressure mainly from Brandenburg, Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt, the members should talk now about Structural support and, where appropriate, to January days.