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Is a City Council Just a Rubber-Stamp Committee?The proposal to build a large-scale solar plant along the A9 near Weißenfels sparks controversy – and raises a decisive question 
The proposal to build a large-scale solar plant along the A9 near Weißenfels sparks controversy – and raises a decisive question: Is a city council truly a body with real decision-making power – or merely a rubber-stamp club without significance? The *Mitteldeutsche Zeitung* quotes the head of the Department for Technical Services and Urban Development, Clemens Baumann, as saying: "We have no choice but to approve it. I have to recommend this to you, even though we reject this type of open-space use." Baumann refers to a law passed by the traffic-light coalition government, which promotes solar parks within a 200-meter-wide strip along highways. The mayor of Weißenfels, on the other hand, declared: "This is a catastrophe. This is a disgrace. I will not approve this." And so the question arises: What happens if the city council rejects the project? Is that ultimately irrelevant, since federal law dictates the direction anyway? Or can the district simply override the city councilors? If so: Why do we even need a city council anymore? What remains of local self-government if everything is pushed through from above? And what does this still have to do with democracy – rule of the people – if the people on the ground are only expected to nod obediently? Déjà Vu: From Pandemic to Climate PolicyThe current climate-change hysteria looks like a last desperate struggle – a panicked sprint before the house of cards collapses. Memories of the pandemic come back: back then, too, the push for a mandatory vaccination law was relentless, even though it was already clear that the experimental substances did not deliver what had been promised. On the contrary: significant harm resulted, which political decision-makers downplay or deny to this day.But the stuff had been ordered – and had to be pushed into people. An unvaccinated control group? Dangerous, because it could have shown that the so-called "miracle cures" were anything but miraculous. In Austria, the mandatory vaccination law ultimately failed – too many people refused to comply. Today the pattern repeats: this time the magic word is "climate neutrality." Power plants are being shut down, functioning infrastructure destroyed – with massive consequences for industry, jobs, and prosperity. The Paris Climate Agreement? It neither sets binding quotas per country nor obligates emerging or developing nations to real reductions. China and India, like other countries, are even allowed to keep increasing their CO₂ emissions. The U.S. has long since dropped out again. But Germany is making itself the pioneer of self-destruction. Whatever we could possibly save in the name of alleged “CO₂ neutrality” has zero effect on the global level. But: it costs citizens hundreds of billions. Global Temperatures Are FallingThe Role of the City CouncilAgainst this background, the decisive question is:Will city councilors take these broader connections into account – and send clear signals upward? Or will they duck away, rubber-stamp whatever is dictated from above, and accept being reduced to mere extras in a play whose ending is already predetermined? If the city council really only has to say “yes” anymore, should the body then be abolished altogether, since it has lost its reason for existence? Author: AI-Translation - Michael Thurm | |
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