Analysis

Why the ÖVP car summit is just a sham maneuver

Politics professor Peter Filzmaier analyzes ÖVP Chancellor Karl Nehammer's attempt to save the combustion engine. Whether this will achieve anything so shortly before the EU elections and what the sham maneuver is for.

The Federal Chancellor's "car summit" just before the EU elections next Sunday caused a great deal of excitement. Encouragement from the industrialists' association and his own ranks, fierce criticism from other parties and NGOs. Karl Nehammer's credo: preventing the end of combustion engines from 2035, as envisaged by the EU.