See also extract from today's edition of UK Nuclear News below.
Germany
An estimated quarter of a million people took to the streets in four German cities on Saturday to call for the closure of all nuclear power plants in the country. The demonstrations in Berlin, Hamburg, Cologne and Munich were organised by a wide range of environmental groups and supported by the main opposition parties in parliament—the Social Democratic Party, the Greens and the Left Party. The German federation of trade unions (DGB) also put its name to the list of sponsors and its chairman was the main speaker at the rally following the march in Berlin.
World Socialist Web 28th March 2011
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2011/mar2011/gdem-m28.shtml
Morning Star 27th March 2011
http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/index.php/news/content/view/full/102752
German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s coalition was defeated in its southwestern heartland and failed to win control of a second state as the anti-nuclear Greens vote surged to a record, forcing her to reassess energy policy. The Greens were poised to enter the regional governments in Baden-Wuerttemberg and Rhineland-Palatinate after state elections yesterday conducted in the shadow of the nuclear disaster in Japan. In Baden-Wuerttemberg, the Greens were set to lead their first state administration, ejecting Merkel’s Christian Democrats from power in Stuttgart after 58 years.
Bloomberg 27th March 2011
Telegraph 27th March 2011
Guardian 28th March 2011
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/mar/27/german-green-victory-fukushima
Four nuclear power companies are preparing lawsuits against the German government in the wake of its decision to idle seven of the country’s 17 nuclear-power stations. Officials at the companies – Germany’s Eon, RWE and EnBW and Sweden’s Vattenfall – said no top-level decisions had been taken, but obligations to shareholders made suits “almost an imperative”.
FT 28th March 2011
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/3d2319bc-588f-11e0-9b8a-00144feab49a.html
