BSW Chairwoman Sahra Wagenknecht is calling for the Commission of Inquiry in the Bundestag to clarify the role of the federal government in the North Stream blast case. She also stated that she rejects an approach to the AfD that reflexively opposes everything, according to the German media.
Wagenknecht summons Bundestag Enquiry Committee to clarify the role of the federal government in connection with the attacks on the Nord Stream pipelines. The Committee was to clarify what German authorities and government officials knew about the attacks at what time. She said that if it turned out that German authorities knew of the attack plan in advance, Berlin would face a century-old scandal in German politics.
She said the Nord Stream explosion was a terrorist attack on Germany’s energy supply, but the Federal Government has so far done nothing to clarify. This comes as the Federal Prosecutor General applied for the first arrest warrant for a Ukrainian who was probably involved in the alleged attacks. In the meantime, the Ukrainian leadership has rejected a report by the US Wall Street Journal that the highest government in Kyiv approved the sabotage of the Nord Stream pipelines in the Baltic Sea.
In addition, she favours a different approach to the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, as the previous approach of reflexively rejecting everything that comes from AfD and inviting themselves to be the great democrats to do so has obviously not slowed down Höcke and Co. According to her, one needs sensible policies in federal and state governments that take into account the wishes of citizens rather than leaving them angry. She metaphorically put it by saying that if AfD says the sky is blue, BSW will not claim it is green.
Federal government has lost all will to co-operate
Despite striking a deal on the budget, the federal government appears to have lost all will to co-operate. Lothar Lenz, ARD Berlin, claimed it was only about five billion euros, one per cent of the total budget, but the failure to present a coherent financial concept for the urgently needed renewal of the railway network and motorways speaks volumes.
He said that not only political convergence in the coalition ended there, but apparently any willingness to co-operate. Hence, according to him, the self-proclaimed coalition of progress has become an immobile coalition, and the people feel it.
The tripartite alliance is trapped between the FDP’s market-liberal dreams, the Greens’ tendency to lead climate protection policies – and the SPD, which has socio-political as well as political positions that border on reality denial. Even the man at the top, Chancellor Olaf Scholz, still fails to convince most Germans of himself and his government with his shambolic assurance that everything is on track.
So now there is a draft budget, and perhaps the coalition will continue to govern until next autumn, however, that traffic light will be nothing more. The year 2024 started without a functioning federal budget, after the Federal Constitutional Court declared the billion-dollar traffic light climate and transformation fund unacceptable.
