According to his own statements, Federal Transport Minister Volker Wissing does not have a new meeting date with the climate group Last Generation. The FDP politician said in Berlin that he had not made any further appointments. The group was interested in a follow-up appointment. Wissing said he made it clear he wasn’t negotiating.
After a conversation with Wissing on Tuesday, a representative of the climate group Last Generation said that they would continue to talk to Wissing in mid-May. The climate group had announced that it would continue with its protests. The last generation keeps disrupting traffic with blockades to draw attention to their demands for faster and stricter climate protection.
After the conversation, the Ministry of Transport spoke of an objective exchange of positions and arguments. Being in dialogue is part of the essence of democracy. At the same time, it said: “In order to achieve our climate goals, we need a social consensus and not division. This consensus must be worked out democratically and must not be forced by force.”
Lecture hall at the University of Bremen still occupied by climate activists
Meanwhile, 40 climate activists from the EndFossil: Occupy! still occupied the large lecture hall of the University of Bremen. “We will stay at least until May 9, but we want to stay longer,” said a spokesman.
The activists have been on campus since early Tuesday morning and have spread out in the large lecture hall of the university with banners, carpets and table football, among other things. The university has not yet established direct contact with them and has not tried to force them out of the building, said the spokesman for the German Press Agency.
According to the group, they came together “to draw attention to the destruction of our world by fossil capitalism.” Therefore, one wants to bring everyday university life to a standstill “in order to discuss with all those interested about the world in which we want to live together instead. Because the university does not do that, we have to create this space ourselves,” said a spokeswoman.
EndFossil: Occupy! calls, among other things, for free local transport and the socialization of all corporations that, in their view, make a profit with basic human needs. According to the activists, the protest is not only taking place in Bremen, but in many schools, colleges and universities. In Germany there are more than 20 occupations. According to the Wolfenbütteler Zeitung, around 10 to 15 activists occupied a lecture hall at the Ostfalia University of Applied Sciences in Wolfenbüttel.
