Chancellor tells business group decision has had ‘strategic consequences’
Friedrich Merz said phasing out nuclear energy was ‘a serious strategic mistake’. Courtesy Friedrich Merz/X.
Germany’s decision to shut down all its commercial nuclear power plants was a “huge mistake” and has come at a high cost to the economy, chancellor Friedrich Merz said on 15 January, speaking to the German Chamber of Industry and Commerce in Dessau.
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