{"id":447137,"date":"2025-09-24T00:48:17","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T00:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/447137\/"},"modified":"2025-09-24T00:48:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T00:48:17","slug":"trump-praises-germany-for-returning-to-nuclear-energy-and-fossil-fuels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/447137\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump praises Germany for returning to nuclear energy and fossil fuels"},"content":{"rendered":"

President Trump used his UN General Assembly address<\/a> to criticize Europe\u2019s energy transition\u2014singling out Germany\u2014while defending continued global use of oil, gas, and coal, and urging nations to prioritize \u201creliable\u201d fossil fuels over what he cast as costly renewables. <\/p>\n

He framed fossil fuels as essential to development and energy security, echoing past lines that nations should not \u201cabandon\u201d coal, oil, and gas, and arguing that wealthy countries pushing rapid phaseouts have themselves relied on hydrocarbons for 150 years. German officials have repeatedly pushed back<\/a> on similar claims from Trump, noting that more than half of Germany\u2019s power generation now comes from renewables and that the country is shutting down<\/a>, not building, coal and nuclear plants with coal due off the grid by 2038 at the latest.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll green is all bankrupt,\u201d Trump said in the speech while implying that he wasn\u2019t including nuclear energy in his definition of \u201cgreen.\u201d While nuclear energy is low-carbon, its environmental impact is unclear, although green energy advocates have included it in the green category for decades. For instance, in March 2021 the U.S. Department of Energy wrote a blog post<\/a> on \u201c3 reasons why nuclear is clean and sustainable.\u201d<\/p>\n

Germany focus<\/p>\n