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Econ Min-Any Changes To Gas Levy Must Not Endanger Energy Supply

GERMANY

Wires carrying comments from German Economy Minister and Vice-Chancellor Robert Habeck stating that, 'Any changes to the gas levy must not endanger energy supply'.

  • Habeck: We are looking at ways to avoid putting the gas levy in jeopardy.
Habeck's comments this morning come after a speech delivered in Muenster on 25 September where he stated that it was “certainly not morally correct” that some firms recording high profits from raised energy prices are also set to receive gov't aid.
  • The minister stated that the gov't should look at the functioning of the levy, but warned, “However, there is a relatively high hurdle...If we start to play games and that brings lawsuits -- and there will definitely be lawsuits in one direction or another -- and the levy gets scrapped, then we will still have the same problem: some companies and citizens will experience a collapse in gas supply.”
  • Finance Minister Christian Lindner, from the pro-business liberal FDP, stated, "If there is a need to change something to make this instrument more targeted to benefit consumers, then we won’t shy away from making corrections,”
Public concerns about rising energy prices clearly feeding through into support for political parties. Chancellor Olaf Scholz's centre-left Social Democrats and Lindner's FDP both polling poorly (in third and fifth place nationally respectively). However, Habeck's Greens, which sit alongside the SPD and FDP in gov't, continue to poll well and sit in second place nationally.
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