FDP head Lindner says differences with Greens especially evident in energy policy

Christian Lindner, the head of German free-market liberal party FDP, has said his party and the German Greens are especially at odds over their approaches to energy policy. In an interview with Austrian newspaper Die Presse, Lindner said the Greens were proposing “subsidies, bans and quotas”, whereas the FDP aimed to reach the Paris Agreement’s climate goals through market-based measures. However, in some areas, such as education, the free-market liberals had more in common with the environmentalist Green Party than with their traditional coalition partner, the conservative CDU/CSU alliance, Lindner added.

Read the interview in German here.

See the CLEW factsheet Climate & energy stumbling blocks for Jamaica coalition talks and the CLEW article German Greens confident pro-climate government coalition possible for background.