Bautzen (dpa/sn) - The Bautzen CDU politician Marko Schiemann sees the federal government as responsible for structural change and demands significant improvements. "Anyone who wants to phase out coal must not leave the coal regions alone," he told the German Press Agency on Monday. So far there are no regulations for the creation of alternative jobs in the affected regions. Schiemann is therefore calling on the federal government to decide on the framework conditions for this. The previous blockade must finally be abandoned. "The structural change must take place before the coal phase-out and not in 10 years."
"Companies in Lusatia must have funding available to take up the jobs that are being lost in the coal and energy sectors," said Schiemann. He is concerned about the continuing emigration of school leavers and well-trained specialists from Lusatia. This must finally be stopped. "There must be no competition about earlier exit scenarios. People in Lusatia expect clear perspectives as to where their future job will be in their home country."
In the previous week, the heads of government of the East German coal states and reliability from the federal government had already warned. In a letter to Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD), the SPD politician Dietmar Woidke (Brandenburg) and his two CDU colleagues Michael Kretschmer (Saxony) and Reiner Haseloff (Saxony-Anhalt) saw the coal consensus that had been reached softened and called into question. The year 2038 was originally set as the date for the coal phase-out. In its coalition agreement, the traffic light coalition in Berlin formulated that it would "ideally" exit by 2030.
