Merz promised in 2023 to reactivate German reactors. Now, his CDU party is so beholden to the socialist SPD and the greens that he is overseeing the literal destruction of the plants.
Energy in Germany has become expensive, which is terrible for their industry. Also, they import a lot from countries burning coal. Brilliant, really brilliant...
CDU isn't "beholden" to SPD and Greens, they just know that lying about what you are going to do is much cheaper and easier than actually doing it. If CDU truly cared about nuclear power, the time to do something would've been the 16 years they were in power during which the shutdowns were planned and prepared, and undoing that would've been relatively easy, not once it was done or in final stages.