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Berlin (dpa) - According to the Union Chancellor candidate Armin Laschet, Germany must remain an industrialized country even with the desired climate neutrality.
"I want to make Germany a climate-neutral industrial country," said the North Rhine-Westphalian Prime Minister on Sunday evening on the ARD program "Anne Will".
"But that means in German: I also want to have a steel industry."
If the steel industry moves to another country, the world climate is not served.
Because then steel, which is necessary for the energy transition, will be produced under worse conditions.
The Fridays for Future activist Luisa Neubauer accused Laschet and the Union of producing and failing to solve ecological crises for years. In the 16 years of the CDU / CSU's reign, no business-friendly environment for climate neutrality has been created, but the coal phase-out has been "systematically delayed". The industry would be "thrown billions" and decided against the local people. This is also the case in Laschet's own federal state, where the new lead decision by the CDU / FDP state government on open-cast lignite mining is to be used to excavate a further six villages.
Laschet disagreed firmly: "You are a member of the Greens and can listen for a moment."
Germany would have to get out of nuclear energy and coal at the same time.
The regions affected by the coal phase-out needed money for structural change.
The resolutions on the Garzweiler and Hambach opencast mines in North Rhine-Westphalia were made by the previous red-green government.
Since the beginning of his government, the dispute over the Hambach Forest has ended.
If the coal phase-out process goes faster, even villages could be saved.
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His goal is to make the economy climate-neutral and at the same time to preserve jobs, said Laschet.
To manufacture the first “green steel” in Germany, however, a great deal of effort is required.
"Keeping an eye on this social question and still being successful, that is the task facing the next Chancellor."
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