Coal summit: invitation with a signal effect

armed to exit scenarios, armed to the structure of aid: The coal Commission is in the Central points of disagreement. In the evening, the Participants come together at the Chancellor. The elections in view.

By Karin Dohr, ARD-capital Studio

In the Chancellery of you have deep stacks, and calls it simply a "replacement". For others, it is the urgent need to rescue the Chancellor, in order to prevent the impending Failure of the so-called coal Commission. Fact: Angela Merkel, invites you to dinner.

the four Minister presidents of the länder, in which the coal is supported, as well as the Chairman of the Commission and the heads of the concerned ministries are Invited. You are all invited for the Rest of the Evening nothing more to make an Open - End wants, so listen for this "exchange" - the Chancellor, compromise, explore, take a picture of where the coal Commission.

The use of confess is, in fact, overdue: Finally, a theme returns in the policy, the policy has so far maintained a elegant out - maybe also because the parties of the Grand coalition were busy with themselves.

The idea has to sound for the stressed-out politician seductive: If a Problem is difficult to resolve because of many conflicting interests to prevent the date, let's the lobbyists on all sides to the table. Get a couple of months time, in order to propose a compromise. And we implement politically. So it has to work with the financing of the nuclear phase-out, so it should work now with the Coal phase-out.

But the Commission, which has now gone into extra time and no later than the beginning of February, a result that is found, then threatened to fly several times from the curve. The policy cannot be limited to "look and log", it was from groups of Participants becoming increasingly frustrated.

The Minister President of Brandenburg, Saxony-Anhalt and Saxony, Dietmar Woidke, Haseloff and Kretschmer, in the hope to two-digit mililarden amounts.

This was done in the Commission. After 13 regular sessions, there is already one or other of the interim report, it is filed to the final texts. But at the crucial Points of a "X is even", where the Numbers belong: concrete Gigawatt-Pay, to be in the case of lignite and coal up to 2022 and beyond, saved. And Numbers of the Structural support of the Federal government, the affected countries are demanding, if the coal phaseout will be politically decided.

climate protection against money? Sounds like the political horse-trading - but if it would actually work so could possibly all be quite satisfied.

The ideas about what should be the government, the coal exit costs, vary but far. In the coalition contract of 1.5 billion Euro for the structural change - a sum that the Prime Minister only a mild smile. You will have 60 billion euros as a target. Also, many have smiled only mild.