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The original shut down decision was made by the first SPD/Greens coalition under Schröder.

The Merkel government then stopped it, then resumed it again.

And now Greens try to claim it wasn’t their fault, despite it being the foundation of their party since the mid-1980s.

Yes, but the original plan of the Greens seeked to use nuclear power as a transitional technology to first replace coal. While the build up of renewable energy in Germany during the last 2 decades is very impressive, adding more gas to the mix certainly looks idiotic in hindsight. This wasn't the Greens fault, as they haven't been in government since 2005. They are now the ones having to deal with it though.

I hope there would be some investigational journalism to dig out how much money flooded from Russia towards lobbying this to happen..

There are plausible reports that money flew from Big Oil to anti-nuclear groups, so ... the Russians would have been in good company.

“There are plausible reports” should probably be followed by a link or two.

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