This is a blow for the coalition of Social Democratic Chancellor Olaf Scholz in Germany. The Constitutional Court of Karlsruhe has just challenged the government’s flagship project on the energy of buildings. The court, seized by the Christian Democratic Party, in the opposition, considered that the government did not leave enough time in Parliament to deliberate quietly on a law with very significant repercussions for individuals.
With our correspondent in Berlin, Nathalie Versieux
Olaf Scholz would have done well without this setback, which will prevent him from regaining control of the political debate at the start of the school year. The text challenged by the Constitutional Court has indeed been blocking the work of its coalition for weeks, as the differences are great between the Greens and the Liberals around the heating of buildings.
Environmentalists want to speed up the energetic transition by phasing out gas and oil boilers in stages. The project is causing great concern in the country, provoking a debate that has turned into a political crisis, with new peaks for the far right in the polls, around 20% of voting intentions.
Olaf Scholz hoped to definitively turn the page on the boiler battle before the summer break. The debate will therefore resume in the fall. A slap for the chancellor social democrataccording to the German press.
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