ENERGY: Nuclear power policy shift for Germany*

The victory for Germany’s Christian Democrats, led by Chancellor Angela Merkel, in recent national elections, paves the way for a major shift in energy production towards nuclear power.In the elections, although the Christian Democrats received only 33.8 per cent of the national vote – a slightly lower proportion of the vote than in the previous election – they became the dominant party in the German Bundestag (parliamentary lower house). This was because support for the left-wing Social Democra…

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