CDU General Secretary Mario Czaja has warned the traffic light coalition against passing an immature heating law before the summer break. “The people in our country have been sufficiently unsettled by this chaos,” he told the editorial network Germany (RND) about the heating dispute within the traffic light. “I think sloppily piecemeal work just to meet an artificial deadline is wrong and dangerous.”
On Tuesday, a top group of SPD, Greens and FDP agreed on major changes to the cabinet’s draft of the Building Energy Act (GEG), the so-called Heating Act. A two-page “guide rail” paper was presented. The first consultation of the GEG in the Bundestag was on Thursday. The coalition is aiming for the Bundestag to pass the law before the summer break. This begins after July 7th.
Czaja said: “What we have now are guard rails, not a bill. There is skepticism as to whether this government will be able to present a unified bill before the summer break.” The traffic light parties had announced an agreement in big words, which was immediately interpreted differently by the Greens, FDP and SPD.
