2023-06-14 20:55:04
EIt’s just before seven on Tuesday evening when the Federal Minister of Economics Robert Habeck enters the garden of the Danish embassy residence in the capital Berlin. An old villa on the outskirts, a summer festival. Guests sip drinks among blooming rosebushes and sample South Jutland brine eggs. Habeck is to give a short speech here. It also fits: he loves the country and speaks the language. He also sees Denmark as a role model in the energy transition, which he said just the day before at the district heating summit.
Habeck is on the stage and speaks freely. Not a word about the Building Energy Act (GEG), which the government agreed to a few hours ago. Habeck speaks about the relationship between Germany and Denmark. He says something about the cooperation in the traffic light coalition. He says that the cultural differences between Danes and Germans made them both richer. That it’s easier to talk when you understand what the other person is saying and why. And that you have come from confrontation to a strong togetherness. That took a while. But it was worth it.
Christian Lindner on the other hand demonstrates his good mood. After the GEG agreement, the FDP chairman went to Wannsee. He is the first FDP politician to be invited to the annual “Asparagus Ride” organized by the Seeheimer Kreis of the SPD parliamentary group. The “MS Havel Queen” is ready for the evening tour. Barely 40 hours of negotiations were over when an agreement was reached, Lindner jokingly alludes to the tough talks. He says that it is “not a weakness, but a strength” when three parties struggle to find a solution. But then he talks about the fact that the Greens have been holding on to the heat pump for a long time. In the party headquarters of the coalition partner, a heat pump has been tampered with for three years. “Mine is already running.”
40 years Green Group
The Minister of Agriculture, Cem Özdemir, is the only prominent Green member sitting in front of Lindner. Lindner spreads his knowledge about asparagus. Green asparagus was dominant in Germany well into the 19th century, and only then did white asparagus begin to spread. Alluding to the 160th birthday of SPD the Finance Minister scoffed: ever since the Social Democrats came into existence, green asparagus has had a niche existence in Germany. Then Lindner knocks out the third joke in the direction of Özdemir. The white asparagus is refined by peeling. The green one does not have to be peeled in the kitchen. In the budget negotiations, however, he could not save the green departments from refining.
has before Olaf Scholz spoken. The Chancellor has the small government declaration to go with him. Support Ukraine, become independent of fossil energy, show respect to people. He only touches on the heating agreement. There was a bit of a jitter in the coalition, he says. “Today it jerked.” This is the father speaking, who doesn’t want to fuel the argument between the family members. “I hope it will be a fun time on the water.” But the ship is still at the dock. It has to wait until the Chancellor and Co. disembark again after an hour and a half. The next dates are waiting.
The green celebrate a birthday party in the evening in an industrial area in Wilhelmsruh in the north of Berlin, their parliamentary group has turned 40 years old. The mood is not relaxed. The 800 guests will be brought closer to the history of the faction via video, veterans will remember earlier times. Tenor: Even then, the wind blew in the faces of the Greens. The songs of the rock band “Ton, Steine, Scherben” gave her strength back then, remembers Claudia Roth, for example “The dream is over” or “Alone they make you one”.
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