With this statement made on Saturday (December 24th), many Germans felt that the Federal Republic of Germany was on its way to becoming a dysfunctional state. spoke Wolfgang Kubiki, Vice-President of the Free Democratic Party of Germany (FDP), Deputy Speaker of the Bundestag.
In an interview with a newspaper Bild am Sonntag listed the problems accumulated in the country. “Infrastructure, energy prices and the Bundeswehr’s inability to defend the country – we must counter this now, otherwise things will go badly. We were chosen to improve the well-being of the country and its citizens, not to threaten it. Our economy must survive,” Kubicki said.
It should be noted that in the September 2021 elections, the FDP received 11.5% of the vote and entered the ruling coalition with the Social Democratic Party of Germany and the Greens. These three parties formed the country’s Cabinet, headed by Olaf Scholz.
The Deputy Speaker of the Bundestag reminded that the 110 billion Euros that Germany plans to spend only on energy imports in the light of the current crisis will not be sufficient in other areas. “If we continue to pay aid for years in the same spirit in the fight against the energy crisis, we may face the threat of state bankruptcy, if not state socialism.
We cannot stay long in this financial crisis, in which case there will not be enough money to invest,” Kubiki says.
“This won’t work!”
He also criticized the position of the Greens in energy policy. “I am outraged that in such difficult times for our citizens and our economy, as a ‘traffic light’ coalition, we have not been able to use all opportunities to obtain adequate and affordable energy volumes,” Kubicki said.
“We buy liquefied gas for huge sums of money from Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and the United States, and at the same time refuse to produce our more affordable shale gas for purely ideological reasons. This will not work! “We must be better at dealing with crises,” said the Vice-President of the Bundestag.