France and Germany have agreed to push for a further weakening of the EU’s planned phaseout of new combustion engine cars, a deal that could break a months-long deadlock among member states, business daily Handelsblatt and newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reported.

  • Melchior@feddit.org
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    5 days ago

    Why the hell is Merz so hellbend on destroying the German car industry? Electric is clearly the future. There are even a bunch of fairly cheap electric cars available and prices are falling. Not just that, but EVs are already taking a large enough market share, that car companies are shutting down combustion engine production lines. If Germany remains focused on them, then the Chinese will just kill their car companies.

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      Yes, sure. But will that happen before his term is over? No? Seeee, thats someone else’s problem. For now pandering to the far right is more important

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        Yes but this is more serving the rich. Pandering to the far right is how he and politicians/insert-favorite-animal-insult like him get political cover for doing their job, which is serving the rich.