“A heat pump is cheaper over the life cycle of a heating system”

The Economics Minister wants Germans to heat differently. In the FAZ interview, Robert Habeck talks about the heat transition, climate protection – and the question of whether a new financial crisis is imminent.

Minister Habeck, you have just been to Brazil, Colombia and Japan, in between the crisis issues in Berlin – how many hours do you sleep at night?

In weeks like these, you sometimes lose a little sense of the time of day. But I sleep enough, don’t worry.

Banks in America and Europe are reeling like they were 15 years ago. Are we facing the next big crisis after Corona and the energy price shock?

The European banking system is robust, deposit insurance has reached a completely different level than it was then. Today we are not in a systemic financial crisis, but we see individual banks in Switzerland and the USA having problems. I assume that the financial system can take it. There are exchanges within the federal government about the banks, but there are no crisis meetings.