Eastern German states reject coal commission鈥檚 proposals, renew 60 billion euro-demand
The governments of Germany鈥檚 eastern coal mining states have criticised a draft proposal by the country鈥檚 coal exit commission for focusing too much on emissions reduction and too little on the economic prospects of people living in mining regions, the weekly newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung reports. Reiner Haseloff and Michael Kretschmer, the conservative CDU state premiers of Saxony-Anhalt and Saxony, respectively, said the commission鈥檚 proposals could not be accepted as they stand. Haseloff added that Germany鈥檚 federal government 鈥渄oes not seem to understand鈥� the costs of creating new economic prospects in coal regions and renewed his conclusion that 鈥�we don鈥檛 need 1.5 billion but 60 billion euros.鈥�
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