Philipp Amthor in “early start”
“We don’t rely on state regulation and bans”
06/15/2023 09:54 am
The new heating law is still causing resentment among the opposition. The CDU will examine the law, but “remain as critical as possible,” says parliamentary group board member Philipp Amthor on ntv “Frühstart”. The asylum compromise of the EU countries is also unsatisfactory.
The heating law will be discussed for the first time in the Bundestag today, but so far only the guidelines are known. Philipp Amthor, a member of the executive committee of the CDU/CSU, leaves open whether the opposition in the federal government will support the building energy law. “What the traffic light did with this heating law, with this heating hammer, the procedure alone, the uncertainty alone that triggered it in society, would in itself be reason enough for a rejection,” said Amthor in the “early start ” by ntv.
Many points are still unclear. “In any case, we will remain as critical as possible. And whether what has now been put together as a prose text can also be found in a concrete law, that must now be shown in the parliamentary debate,” Amthor continued. The CDU, on the other hand, favors emissions trading. “We rely on a market instrument and we don’t rely on state regulation and bans.” That is what would have greatly annoyed many people: that the state prescribes how and under what conditions heating systems can be installed.
“We have too much immigration”
Amthor is critical of the EU interior ministers’ so-called asylum compromise. “It’s good that there is now at least a minimal consensus, a pointer in the right direction at the level of the interior ministers of the European Union,” said the CDU politician. “But it will all take far too long before this process in Europe is completed and this agreement between the interior ministers is then translated into concrete European regulations, laws and regulations, so to speak. That’s far too late.” At best, there will be a solution next year, and that is not reasonable. “Now we have too much immigration, our municipalities are now at the limit, they need relief now.”
According to Amthor, it is also right to initially detain families with children at the EU’s external border in order to carry out the asylum procedures there. “It would be unambitious if one believed that these are per se inhumane conditions at the external border. No, it is the declared goal of the interior ministers of the European Union to introduce an external border procedure in accordance with European law. And that is possible,” said Amthor further. “And one thing has to be clear: You can’t enter the European Union as you like, you need the prospect of staying, a reason to stay. And it’s not enough to apply for asylum, it has to be checked for plausibility .”
Amthor rejects the term “internment camp” for the reception camps on the external border. “The concept of detention, internment camps, everything else that is used there, doesn’t correspond to reality. It’s not about building a second Moria on the borders of the European Union, it’s about carrying out orderly procedures. “