Robert Habeck

There was a coalition on federal level of socialists, Greens and liberals.

And the whole country was so fed up because we've got a minister like Annalena Baerbock was a foreign minister of the Greens and Habeck was an industry minister.

Dreen was a minister for industry, stuff like this.

So you can imagine what happened in the country.

She talks without a stop.

So she and also Habeck, her co-chair.

And so the Green Party got turned by Joschka Fischer, who then... after his uh position as a as the foreign foreign secretary or secretary of state joined the hedge fund of madeleine albright so you know where he is uh being parked but so he turned the green party from a peace party into a war party and the greens are the most anti-german most warlike most, let's say, rainbow LGBTQ party that you could imagine.

So they are the final executors of the Morgenthau Plan.

Wo ich sage: „Ihr habt doch offensichtlich alle nicht begriffen, wo das Problem herkommt.“ So, und, äh, wenn ich das IGM-Zeichen dazu sehe, dann weiß ich auch, dass wir also in diesem Land, äh, ähm, deutlich mehr politische Bildung brauchen, weil doch offensichtlich klar ist, dass das, was hier als Agenda stattfindet, A längst geplant und B die Ergebnisse auch vorhersehbar sind, ja.

Wenn du also einen Trend hast über mehrere Jahre und wenn du halt, ähm, Energie in einer Industrienation sozusagen so verteuerst oder abschaffst, dass du international nicht mehr mithalten kannst, dass, äh, äh, die, die ganze Peripherie rundrum oder das weiterverarbeitende Gewerbe nicht mehr da ist, dann führt das zu Insolvenz, auch wenn der Habeck das damals nicht so richtig einschätzen konnte, ja.

Aber dafür-

Richtig, der denkt jetzt eben so anders.

But yes, the Greens have been big supporters of Ukraine.

We saw Robert Habeck at the time.

He was economy minister.

Even before Russia's invasion of Ukraine, he was the one politician who was calling to send defensive weapons to Ukraine, even before the invasion.

four years later now, and his party, even though there were generally questions in terms of how many weapons Germany should, for example, sell abroad, or just in generally in the history of the party, weapons and conflict were always topics strongly debated.

And the Green Party has a tradition for being a pacifist party.

But the position that sort of Robert Habeck put forward was carried on by the Green Party when they were in government.

And also now they're still big supporters of Ukraine.

And road transport perhaps as the easiest.

If we think back Jürgensen's speech, the EU Energy Commissioner and former Danish Energy Minister, EVs is the first thing he mentioned, and that's perhaps the lowest-hanging fruit in the biggest impact context in this current crisis, which is slightly different from the crisis Europe faced four years ago when gas prices or gas supply was majorly hit.

Now European gas supply is less directly impacted from the Middle East, but oil feeding through much more.

There was a recent IEA report on global EVs and obviously dominated by China, but pointed out how the price of comparable EVs has declined recently.

There is one thing we talk about it every day is the twin revolutions of AI And perhaps the energy transition.

So that may add new dimensions which is many uncertainties attached.

But on the specifics, on the policy front, and heating is one of the key issues we mentioned, and some people may also remember the debate about the German heating law under the previous government led by the green energy minister Habeck, and that law was just reversed by the new coalition to allow for more freedom of choice.

And in this heatwave, we read a lot about air conditioning.

'Cause we had this so-called progress coalition, which was between the Green Party and our markets party, they call themselves liberals, and, uh, then the Social Democrats, and it was supposedly the transformation coalition.

And then Habeck, the green economics minister, became too popular-

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... to say it this way, [laughs] and then it had to be a lot of bashing on him.

And many

politicians in Germany have Nazis' parents, for example, Habeck.

Yeah? And Baerbock, they have to say.

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