Oh well! Of all people, the Minister of Economic Affairs is not good at arithmetic?
Robert Habeck (54, Green Party) made an embarrassing calculation error with “Markus Lanz”. He said: “If a car costs 15,000 euros and then it suddenly costs 20,000 euros, then it is a quarter of a percent, er, 25 percent more expensive.”
Incorrect! Then it would be a third more expensive, so it would be around 33 percent more expensive…
Apart from this mistake, the Economics Minister’s performance was, all in all, confident. He seemed better prepared to answer questions about the shutdown of nuclear power plants than the other participants in the group.
His line of defense was: It was not internal papers such as the files sued out by the magazine “Cicero” that were decisive for the nuclear phase-out, but rather the discussions with the nuclear power plant operators – and they spoke out against continued operation because the fuel rods were missing.
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Lanz asked the question whether he would have let the nuclear power plants run longer if the operators had wanted that. Habeck: “The order was: until the gas shortage is overcome. The order was: no bans on thinking.” So yes, but only for a short time.
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He also argued that the shutdown of the nuclear power plants was also necessary because the uranium for the nuclear power plants came from Russia. It’s a shame that no one replied to him that Russia was far from being one of the largest uranium exports to the EU. Rather, these are Kazakhstan and Canada.
And: Habeck said that Germany had gotten through the energy crisis well and had facts to prove it.
There was another strange moment: Habeck claimed that the Greens were generally on the right side of the issue of Hamas terror. “When it comes to questions of the rule of law, I would say for my shop, let’s not let anything go wrong. So the clarity against Hamas, the demonstrations after the attack on Israel, I think left nothing to be desired.”
Talk guest Michael Bröcker, a journalist at “Table Media,” briefly took his breath away. “It’s really a bit surprising,” he said. “So you would say that the Greens leave nothing to be desired when it comes to solidarity with Israel? “You would say on the issue of UNRWA and all the support for pro-Palestinian demonstrations that came from the Greens, would you say it all sits in the middle of the political landscape?”
Habeck hesitated for a moment, but finally nodded and said: “Yes.” Bröcker: “OK. I see it a little more differentiated, but good.”