News Digest Item
16 Sep 2016

“Full speed ahead into the past“

Süddeutsche Zeitung

The British government’s decision to approve the nuclear power plant Hinkley Point is a step “forward into the past,” despite the “laudable” goal to reduce carbon emissions, writes Björn Finke in an opinion piece for the Süddeutsche Zeitung. However, Germany should take the gradual British shut down of coal-fired power plants “absolutely as an example.”

Read the opinion piece in German here.

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