Habeck: Climate protection can only fail due to incompetence or unwillingness
On Tuesday, the Greens helped push a multi-billion euro financial package through parliament, partly aimed at boosting climate protection. Euronews spoke with Vice Chancellor and Federal Minister for Economic Affairs Robert Habeck about climate and Europe.
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On Tuesday, the Greens helped push a multi-billion euro financial package through parliament, partly aimed at boosting climate protection. Euronews spoke with Vice Chancellor and Federal Minister for Economic Affairs Robert Habeck about climate and Europe.
READ MORE : http://www.euronews.com/2025/03/20/habeck-climate-protection-can-only-fail-due-to-incompetence-or-unwillingness
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00:00Every year, participants from around the world, including government ministers in the energy sector,
00:06gather at the Berlin Energy Transition Dialogue, BETD,
00:10to discuss a safe, affordable and environmentally friendly global energy transition.
00:16Speaking with Euronews at this year's summit,
00:18the outgoing German Vice-Chancellor and Minister for Economic Affairs and Climate Protection, Robert Habeck,
00:25called on politicians to put climate crisis back on the political agenda.
00:55He praised the European Commission President, Ursula von der Leyen, for her leadership.
01:13He however called for comprehensive reform to ensure unity across the board in Europe.
01:26We need majority decisions in the Council, also in foreign security and finance policy.
01:31I would say that Europe needs its own financial-political autonomy,
01:35so that it has the possibility to take in money on its own.
01:38And then there is the old American saying,
01:41no taxation without representation or legislation.
01:44This means that at some point it also needs its own legislative competence through a full mandate.
01:51So we have to make our way to a real federal European republic.
01:55This means that the Commission has to be elected correctly in the end,
01:59the parliament has to be a real parliament.
02:01Habeck stepped down as leader of the Greens following the party's loss at the February polls.
02:07Despite the setback, Germany's Greens helped push through a major spending package
02:12that included a special fund of 100 billion euros for climate protection.