2023-11-02 19:49:54
By Pierre Avril
Published yesterday at 6:49 p.m., Updated yesterday at 6:49 p.m.
“Until it is clear that energy is available and affordable, we should put an end to dreams of phasing out coal-fired electricity,” says German Finance Minister Christian Lindner ( here, October 26, in Berlin). LIESA JOHANNSEN/REUTERS
DECRYPTION – Christian Lindner, the Minister of Finance at the head of the Liberals, questions the end of coal in 2030.
Correspondent in Berlin
A finance minister is generally expected to chart and maintain an economic course and embody a form of order. But for several weeks, across the Rhine, the big German financier, Christian Linder, at the head of the small liberal party FDP, has been working instead to confuse the trajectory of Europe’s leading economy. On Tuesday, Bruno Le Maire’s counterpart attacked what constitutes one of the pillars of government policy, and which makes the fight against climate change its priority.
His country is not capable of weaning itself off coal by 2030, he asserted, contrary to the wishes expressed in the coalition’s founding agreement. “Until it is clear that energy is available and affordable, we should end dreams of phasing out (by this date, Editor’s note) electricity produced from coalspecified Christian Lindner to the regional daily Cologne City Gazette. Initially planned…
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