{"id":14191,"date":"2025-01-15T11:33:27","date_gmt":"2025-01-15T11:33:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/londonpost.news\/?p=14191"},"modified":"2025-10-18T12:09:39","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T11:09:39","slug":"what-german-parties-say-on-energy-policy-ahead-of-february-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/fr\/europe\/what-german-parties-say-on-energy-policy-ahead-of-february-election\/2025\/01\/15\/admin1\/","title":{"rendered":"What German parties say on energy policy ahead of February election"},"content":{"rendered":"
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With just six weeks to go before Germany\u2019s parliamentary elections in late February, several parties have specified their ideas on how to ease the burden of energy costs on households and companies. The conservatives (CDU<\/a>) under Friedrich Merz, who looks likely to become the country\u2019s next chancellor\u00a0according to current polls<\/a>, adopted an \u201cAgenda 2030<\/a>\u201d that promises to reduce the price of electricity by \u201cat least\u201d five cents per kilowatt-hour, by lowering taxes and reducing\u00a0grid fees<\/a>. Chancellor Olaf Scholz\u2019s Social Democrats (SPD<\/a>) also officially adopted their\u00a0party manifesto<\/a>, which focuses on increasing investments and social justice, and proposes to halve\u00a0grid fees<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Lower energy prices, as well as tax cuts worth billions, are part of the CDU\u2019s plan to boost economic growth to \u201cat least two percent\u201d. The paper also calls for abolishing the EU 2035 phase-out date for combustion engines, and argues that synthetic fuels will enable these engines \u201cto contribute to achieving climate targets\u201d.\u00a0CDU<\/a>\u00a0member Christoph Ahlhaus, who chairs the country\u2019s association of small and medium-sized enterprises, told public broadcaster ARD that unresolved financing of the party concept was \u201cindeed the weak point\u201d, reported newsletter Tagesspiegel Background.<\/p>\n

In addition to\u00a0CDU<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0SPD<\/a>, the populist far-right Alternative f\u00fcr Deutschland (AfD<\/a>), as well as the B\u00fcndnis Sarah Wagenknecht (BSW<\/a>), a populist left anti-immigrant outfit, also detailed or added to their election promises.\u00a0AfD<\/a>\u00a0leader Alice Weidel said the party wanted to tear down all of Germany\u2019s wind turbines. Meanwhile, the\u00a0BSW<\/a>\u00a0plans to resume large-scale gas imports from Russia.<\/p>\n

According to\u00a0the latest polls<\/a>, the\u00a0CDU<\/a>\u00a0can expect to receive around 30 percent of the vote at the 23 February elections. The\u00a0AfD<\/a>\u00a0is currently polling around 20 percent,\u00a0SPD<\/a>\u00a0and Greens both at around 15 percent, while the\u00a0BSW<\/a>\u00a0hovers around five percent, the threshold to enter parliament.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Clean Energy Wire \/ Tagesspiegel Background With just six weeks to go before Germany\u2019s parliamentary elections in late February, several parties have specified their ideas on how to ease the burden of energy costs on households and companies. The conservatives (CDU) under Friedrich Merz, who looks likely to become the country\u2019s next chancellor\u00a0according to current […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14192,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":""},"categories":[2399,2464,8273,9924],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/download-36.jpeg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14191"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14191"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14193,"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14191\/revisions\/14193"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}