…vowed to put economic growth above all other concerns and led a call to roll back several EU green regulations.
Vowed to expose the economy to unnecessary risk by ignoring climate change and the catastrophic weather caused by it. Another short sighted fool in a position of power.
*At least he also promised to send Taurus missiles to Ukraine… so that’s nice I guess.
This article names his position among many big ssues, like energy, climate, trade, competition etc. About defense he said:
“We need to have discussions with both the British and the French — the two European nuclear powers — about whether nuclear sharing, or at least nuclear security from the U.K. and France, could also apply to us,” he said.
Elsewhere, Merz has promised big and broad policies to scale up Germany’s defense industry, and will be expected to follow through quickly on an earlier pledge to scrap his predecessor’s block on the dispatch of long-range Taurus cruise missiles to Ukraine for strikes on Russian targets.
He has promised a lot and will not do anything. Everyone can see this from their program:
~100 billion € less taxes from their planned policies (+/-15% depending on which economic institute did the calculation), more money for infrastructure investments, much more money for the army… all allegedly financed by cutting costs caused by immigration and social systems and through expected economic growth. But even if you would cut those to zero (which is unconstitutional…) that still would leave you at ~10% growth needed per year.
All while loudly taking of keeping their beloved debt brake.
How are they planning to do it? Not at all… In that same program they also talk about checking the state finances first when in office. Which is a joke given that all those information is publically available already. It’s basically a build in excuse, so once in office they can pretend that the financial situation is -totally unexpected and caused by the former government of course- so much worse than expected, so they are sadly *wink wink* forced to break all their promises.
Now please do a coalition (government) fast, there’s no time to waste.
