Federal budget - Environment Minister and CDU criticize end of e-car subsidies
Thuringia's Environment Minister Bernhard Stengele has criticized key points of the agreement on the 2024 federal budget. Above all, the abrupt end to state subsidies for the purchase of electric cars was wrong, said the Green politician in Erfurt on Monday. "You can't do it like this." If he had just bought an electric car and had calculated with the subsidy, "then I would be angry now". As with other points of the budget compromise, he is less concerned with the content of the resolutions than with the fact that they were hardly foreseeable for consumers and companies.
As a result of the compromise within the traffic light coalition in Berlin on the 2024 federal budget, the Federal Ministry of Economics had surprisingly announced at the weekend that applications for a state purchase premium for electric cars could only be submitted until last Sunday. The premium recently amounted to between 3,000 and 4,500 euros depending on the purchase price of the car.
Stengele was similarly critical of the planned abolition of tax breaks for agricultural diesel. "That's not right, you can't do that at this level," he said. If this subsidy is to be reduced, then this can only be done gradually. Many agricultural companies would now be hit hard all at once by the planned abolition of the tax privilege.
The chairman of the CDU parliamentary group in the Thuringian state parliament, Mario Voigt, criticized the work of the traffic light coalition as "the daily economic stimulus package for political frustration". The SPD, Greens and FDP were damaging Germany's most important economic sector - the automotive industry - with the way in which funding for electric cars had been discontinued. "In the east, we feel the burden much more because people have less in their wallets," said Voigt.
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Source: www.stern.de
