They hope that after them the bureaucratic burden will lighten and to reduce excessive demands on the sector
After the failure of the ruling “traffic light” coalition in Germany from agriculture calls are heard for immediate news elections. The most important voices from the agrarian industry are hoping for a change that will ease the bureaucracy, excessive requirements and the intention to cut state subsidies to the sector, writes Agrarheute.com.
The ruling coalition was unpopular in agriculture from the start. At the height of discontent over sometimes unpredictable austerity measures and new demands at the expense of industry, farmers in Germany responded last winter with nationwide farm protests on an unprecedented scale.
As a result, regret for the failure of Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s federal government is limited today.
The president of the Association of German Farmers (DBV) Joachim Ruckwid called for quick new elections. For Rookvid, the end of the “traffic light” is predictable and logical. “This constant dispute in the government had to be stopped,” said the president of the association. Germany finally needs a stable government that builds trust, also not to lose its important role in Europe.
“The economy and agriculture now urgently need real reductions in red tape and laws that do not burden them, but rather ease them.”
The Association “Family Farms and Forestry” calls for an immediate vote of confidence in the Bundestag and quick new elections.
“What Germany needs now is not experiments or changing majorities, but rather a stable and effective government,” says Max von Elverfeld, the organization’s chairman. A minority government without a clear majority would be a dangerous impasse.
“Now we need to finally unleash the economy, which has slowed down over the past few years, and consistently cut red tape,” Elverfeld said.
The Agricultural Trade Organization (DAH) said the break in the coalition came at a time when Germany is expected to take the lead to strengthen the unity of EU countries.
“We need orientation and clarity, not an unnecessarily long election campaign,” criticized Martin Courbie, managing director of the association. The association called on the democratic parties to work immediately on solutions so that clear terms can be quickly established with a new, stable government.
From the point of view of Prof. Andreas Bitter, president of the Working Group of the Associations of German Forest Owners (AGDW), the end of the coalition marks the end of the main forest policy project related to the amendment of the Federal Forest Act. This is expected, as forest owners have always stressed that a change in direction planned by the Federal Ministry of Agriculture would not mean additional support for the management and climate protection function of the forest.
Bitter stressed that the country urgently needs a government capable of once again acting with a parliamentary majority. Forestry has also been eased since the end of the Federal Forestry Act.
From the perspective of the German Forestry Council (DFWR), it was high time the government collapsed. The entire national economy, especially the forestry and logging cluster, is suffering from a completely broken and incompetent federal government, said DFWR President Georg Schirmbeck.
The completely unnecessary and moreover amateurish preparation of an amendment to the Forestry Act is an example of where the government’s failings lie. Schirmbeck thanked Federal Finance Minister Christian Lindner and the parliamentary group of the Free Democratic Party for preventing the amendment of the Forestry Act, which had been repeatedly raised.
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