Tag: Robert Habeck
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Economics Minister Habeck promotes free trade in Brazil
Dhe rainforest starts right behind the village school. It rises like a green wall behind the wooden buildings of Tres Unidos, a village of 150 people in northwestern Brazil, about an hour by speedboat from Manaus on the Rio Negro. Economics Minister Robert Habeck (Greens) had the welcome greeting of the indigenous population painted on…
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Attachment to the West: Journey to Brazil by Robert Habeck and Cem Özdemir
BFederal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier was there around the turn of the year, as was Environment Minister Steffi Lemke. At the end of January, Chancellor Olaf Scholz flew in, now Economics Minister Robert Habeck and Agriculture Minister Cem Özdemir are coming: Brazil and its neighboring countries are currently high on the federal government’s travel list. On…
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Nord Stream blast: Why does no one suspect the Greens?
Vwe are probably glorifying the past now. But weren’t those wonderful times when we could lie on the sofa in a comfortably warm living room on a Sunday afternoon and watch an old-fashioned pirate film, at best worried about whether there were still enough potato chips? Tempi passati. Nowadays, one no longer looks forward to…
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Cabinet meeting in Meseberg: climate change instead of war
Whe is looking for rifts that may have opened up between the coalition partners at the closed traffic light meeting on Sunday and Monday, should not begin at dinner. The – reportedly random – seating arrangement in the guest house of the federal government in Meseberg, north of Berlin, made for a colorful mix regardless…
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LNG market: China buys whatever gas it can get
Dhe Emir beamed at the praise his guest had just showered on him. During his visit to Qatar in December, Xi Jinping did not bow to the head of the desert state as deeply as Federal Economics Minister Robert Habeck did half a year earlier. China’s president still knew how to tickle Hamad Al Thani’s…
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Habeck’s green heat pump heating plan economy
fFor real estate owners, the path to climate neutrality is becoming expensive. The Economics Ministry of Robert Habeck (Greens) wants to turn Germany into a heat pump country. From next year, the installation of new gas and oil heating systems will be largely banned not only in new buildings but also in existing housing. From…
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Climate-friendly heaters: FDP accuses Habeck of “scrapping orgy”.
IA new dispute over energy policy has broken out in the traffic light coalition. This time it is about the ban on new heaters that work with fossil fuels such as natural gas or oil. The federal government made up of the SPD, Greens and FDP had agreed that from 2025 onwards, 65 percent of…
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Habeck in Washington: The China Reduction Act
Ahen Robert Habeck poses in front of the cameras on Monday afternoon American time in Lafayette Square in central Washington, his words could hardly be friendlier. “The transatlantic partnership has proven its worth,” praised the Federal Minister of Economics and Vice-Chancellor of the Green Party. The American government’s “Inflation Reduction Act”, or IRA for short,…
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Subsidy race with America and China: who offers more?
Dhe on-site visit last Wednesday in Ensdorf, Saarland, was to Robert Habeck’s taste. The American chip manufacturer Wolfspeed wants to build a factory on the site of a former coal-fired power plant. Silicon carbide chips are to be produced there. They should make charging electric cars much faster in the future. The factory is a…
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Nuclear energy has many advantages. We should keep using them!
She was once a central pillar of the electricity supply in Germany. At peak times, seventeen operating nuclear power plants carried around forty percent of the base load. As is well known, that changed in 2011 when, in the wake of the Fukushima disaster, the black-red federal government under Chancellor Angela Merkel decided to phase…