SPD accuses Green Party of pursuing reckless climate protection
The leader of Germany鈥檚 junior government coalition partner SPD, Andrea Nahles, has attacked the Green Party, in parliamentary opposition, for pursuing a climate policy 鈥渢hat does not care about people in coal regions,鈥 Veit Medick writes on Spiegel Online. Nahles said the Green Party, which currently enjoys unprecedented support levels in polls, is pursuing a climate policy 鈥渋n which the state orders the shutdown of coal plants鈥 but leaves people in the affected regions to their own devices. While nobody denies that coal-fired power production cannot go on forever, the SPD is not available for an 鈥渦nfair attack on lignite鈥 [brown coal].
The SPD, together with Chancellor Angela Merkel鈥檚 conservative CDU-CSU alliance, decided in 2016 to set up a commission to plan the end of coal-fired power generation in Germany.
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