Julia Hamburg with Stephan Weil
The composition of the VW supervisory board has already been decided.
(Photo: dpa)
Prime Minister Stephan Weil (SPD) and the Greens politician Julia Hamburg will in future represent the state of Lower Saxony on the supervisory board of the automotive group VW. In Hanover it was said that the formal decision would only be made at the first cabinet meeting of the new red-green state government on November 8th. However, the cast has already been decided.
SPD and Greens presented their coalition agreement on Tuesday. The Greens replace the CDU as the coalition partner of the Social Democrats. Hamburg was her party’s top candidate in the state elections and will now be Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Education.
Before the election, Hamburg had stated in a Reuters interview that the Greens at VW would insist on a stronger role for human rights in China business. In doing so, they are pulling together with IG Metall. The Greens in the federal government had also criticized the investments of large corporations in China and warned against excessive dependencies.
“On the supervisory board, we Greens would work to ensure that VW sees itself more as a mobility service provider and not just relies on individual transport,” Hamburg said before the election. “We would put pressure on VW to rely entirely on electric cars and expand the charging infrastructure. The group could also develop more mobility concepts for rural areas.”
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VW is only briefly mentioned in the red-green coalition agreement. The country will actively use its influence on the supervisory board at VW “to align the group with the climate policy requirements of the new world of mobility and international competition,” it says there.
They support the planned conversion of the VW locations to e-mobility and the planned gigafactory for batteries in Salzgitter. “We support VW to end the production of internal combustion engines as soon as possible.”
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