The report hit political Berlin like a bomb: The Federal Constitutional Court stopped the vote planned for Friday on the Building Energy Act, also known as the Heating Act, in an urgent procedure. The court thus followed an application by CDU MP Thomas Heilmann. On Thursday, the government then announced that the law would not be passed until after the summer break. Previously, there had also been speculation about a special session.
You can read everything important in our news blog. Since the beginning of the week, we have been following the debate in the Bundestag on a law that has been dividing politics and the public for months. It has produced countless headlines, rounds of negotiations day and night and endless coalition squabbles. Practically all citizens are affected because the important question is: How should we heat in the future?
This week, the Building Energy Act, or GEG for short, should finally be passed, literally at the last minute before the parliamentary summer recess. Nothing will come of it now. What is the coalition doing now?
