Germany: One exit and back? The role of nuclear power in the Merz coalition

The future partners of the Friedrich Merz coalition, to be elected Chancellor on 6 May, are already showing their differences, notably on the delivery of long-range missiles to Ukraine and on the attitude to be adopted towards the far-right AfD party.

Roland Tichy asked TE-Reader: What does your picture of the future of Germany look like? Is the big transformation still tilting? What are your plans? We collect your contributions and present them as documents of change. - Here's one of the answers.

Germany: One exit and back? The role of nuclear power in the Merz coalition

April 14, 2025, by Joachim Wille Note, abbreviation, background, and translation – Dieter Kaufmann, Working Group Against Nuclear Facilities, Frankfurt am Main, Germany “SMRs will hardly be able to produce electricity more cheaply than conventional new nuclear power plants, unless thousands of them are mass-produced, which is not at all foreseeable.” Although desired by some members of the Merz coalition, there will be no comeback for nuclear p…

Friedrich Merz (de dos), Federal President of the CDU, spoke with the MP Johann Wadephul (CDU) at the constitutive meeting of the new Bundestag in Berlin on 25 March 2025. KAY NIETFELD/DPA PICTURE-ALLIANCE VIA AFP Will the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) endorse the "coalition contract" that its leadership negotiated with the conservatives of the CDU and the CSU for the purpose of forming a government? Until 29 April, the 358,000 SPD me…