The Green base is likely to be disappointed by the results of the coalition committee.
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The result of the coalition committee should cause a lot of trouble for the Greens. Although 80 percent of the additional revenue from a higher truck toll is to be invested in the railways, the party of Federal Economics Minister Robert Habeck did not get much more out of it. Perhaps the agreement that there should also be a solar program for every newly built motorway kilometer. With 144 Autobahn projects, that’s little consolation.
The disappointment of the green base and the political front organizations became apparent shortly after the presentation of the results by the party chairmen of the SPD, FDP and the eco-party. The Greens should not really have been surprised by the result. In recent weeks, resistance to climate and transport policies has grown steadily among the population.
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