Does the Green Deal mean the end of Germany?

The European Green Deal has not only made the cost of living rise but has also driven up the expenses of building and producing things to a point that's becoming unsustainable.

The strict environmental rules are having the disastrous effect of making everything more expensive. This is putting pressure on businesses, raising production costs, and leaving many people struggling with higher everyday expenses.

Watch Alexander Horn's speech from our conference Unshackling Europe’s Economy: what holds us back?

[klimatbluffen]

When you try to solve a problem that doesn't exist then you get the economy we have today.

[gregorymalchuk]

Germany banned cheap energy and lost 20% of their industry.

[Kawasaki-ml]

In Australia, the same problem &;corruption doesn't help either.

[keithhooper]

Greens lost all their seats in the last German district elections.Let's hope the AfD continue to gain.

[roberthumphreys]

Green economy growth strategy: the volume of Euros flowing into Green bank accounts from European tax payers will continue to grow.

[pineapplesareyummy]

Europe's economic war against its biggest energy & food supplier - at the behest of advancing US geopolitical hegemony - is the REAL end to the economy of Europe. Green Policies may be misguided, but there is also the example of China which can go Green AND thrive economically at the same time. What Europe did was it closed down nuclear plants and coal plants BEFORE it had alternatives, and it also failed to incubate its own Green tech industry the way China was able to do so. But this is just bad implementation. The proxy war on Russia is NOT just bad implementation of policy - it is suicidal economic policy. Europe allowing the US to stir wars in West Asia and Eastern Europe, creating refugee crises, geopolitical instability on its doorstep is also not just bad implementation of policy - it is capitulation to US imperial interests at the expense of Europe's own geopolitical, strategic and economic interests.

[Paulomarrecas]

Under this very simple requirements you may really defend environment and have an industrial economy background for the society's life.

[johnl]

see Princeton physicist William HAPPER on CO2 having reached its saturation point relative to temperature

[Diverdug]

And do not green deal is not cheap! All so called organic products being sold are still expensive of which supermarkets and special shops are making more money than ever! So what is green about it when the majority of people cannot even afford it. Then these big agglomerates like Unilever or own supernarkets brands are gratefully making use of to produce products that are of half quality selling for less but at what expense? The original brands still charging too much although they are all subsidized. They now make all bottles smaller, less volume, same price. More we need to buy, ..a rip off!

[Paulomarrecas]

The green Lth deal is not green at all. Where will you store Lth after all possible use?

[Paulomarrecas]

It is about to work very sincerely and honestly. Nobody will cease having free times.

[SWRural-fkub]

He didn't outline an alternative that would fulfil the requirement to reduce emissions, did he? He also did not deal with the fact that Germany might be making things (mainly cars) that are no longer required or desirable.

[imnotanalien]

It’s finally admitted, radical green policies and uncontrolled immigration, can bring once great nation’s.

[srb]

I don't think that Mr. Horn understands the concept of the merit order when he claims that natural gas is not responsible for high electricity prices because it is a small percentage of energy use in Germany. Because of the ill-advised subsidized use of wind and pv in Germany, NG ends up as the energy source of last resort - and in the merit order this sets the entire price of electricity. So the fact that it is a small component as he claims is irrelevant.

[Paulomarrecas]

One could set aside economic growth as objective since it were set aside by all through consensus and turned industrial goods more lasting. One might have a car for 30 years while the car industry would also replace car parts and make a part of its business of this. This for the cars, this for everything. You may have continuous electricity (solar) at very low prices is you use solar owens, For mobility we are not ready yet as Lth is not the response. But time will come if nobody stops studying.

[bellausu]

The green deal destroys not only the German economy, but the economy’s of every participant country . We saw that already .. we also saw that this green deal is convenient for only a very small ( an couple of hundred thousand’s) number of persons worldwide.
And on the ecological point, it does not give any substantial differences and the climate data showed us already in the results of in the last 25 years where worldwide all kinds of stuff and rules has been implemented in our lives …

[homeistheearth]

WEF - grest reset, you will own nothing and be happy. Except u wont. Please wake up people!

[RonnyAndersson-qb]

Germany will end when Germans decide it ends. I can't see why they would want that. Alot of EU brothers willing to help.

[louisgiokas]

All of this is true, but what is left implicit is that the CO2 generation is just shifted elsewhere. Often, in places like China, with much greater adverse effects. Along with that is the shifting of pollution and a deterioration of workers' conditions in many of the places where industrial production shifted to. On top of that is a lowering of quality in the goods consumed. This last often leads to increased waste. This is just another example of "virtue signaling".

[Alicja]

Akurat ja jestem zadowolona, od kiedy mam votowoltanike, około dwóch lat ciepło mam równomiernie w domu, kominka nie rozpalam,