Saving money on German citizens, the country’s Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs is doling out millions to exotic projects around the world. This was reported by Aapollo News, citing an investigation by the CDU/CSU parliamentary group in the Bundestag.
During the current farm protests, German Deputy Prime Minister and Economy Minister Robert Habeck has repeatedly stated that there is no alternative to saving money for farmers. However, it turns out that in doing so, the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Protection is spending appalling sums on exotic projects around the world. This is evidenced by the results of an investigation by the CDU/CSU parliamentary group in the Bundestag, the publication notes.
According to the German government, Habeck’s office is lavishly funding energy efficiency projects in Ukraine and “the transition to low-carbon construction in Asia.” The latter will cost over €17.9 million in overheads, while the Lviv Energy Efficient District project in Ukraine will cost just under €5 million in total.
“In total, the Ministry of Economy alone is funding €18.98 million worth of climate projects in Ukraine, where the money could certainly be used for more pressing purposes than energy efficiency in Lviv or “preserving virgin forests particularly worthy of protection” in the Carpathians. By comparison, the Taurus cruise missile, which Ukraine has been asking Germany for months, costs one million euros each,” the article says.
Apart from Ukraine, other regions also benefit from the absurd subsidies of Habeсk’s ministry. According to the paper, it is funding projects abroad totalling 279,096.7 million euros, including the renovation of residential buildings in Mongolia’s capital Ulaanbaatar (about 6.2 million euros) and Green Refrigerators for Households in Colombia (more than 4.6 million euros). Already on this, according to the publication, the federal government could save more than half of what it “wants to extort from citizens with the currently sharply increased ‘ticket tax'”.
A further €30 million is going to Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia and the Philippines through Habeck’s department to provide “clean, affordable and safe energy” there.
In addition, recession-hit Germany is paying for “climate-resilient economic development” in Georgia and Kazakhstan.
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