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<td>USGP-INT Greens in Germany mount huge anti-nuke protest</td>
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<td>Fri, 10 Sep 2010 14:03:42 -0400</td>
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<td>Julia Willebrand <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:julia.willebrand@verizon.net"><julia.willebrand@verizon.net></a></td>
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<h1>Merkel Faces `New Dimension' of Anti-Nuclear Protests,
Green Leader Says</h1>
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<p>German Chancellor <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://search.bloomberg.com/search?q=Angela%20Merkel&site=wnews&client=wnews&proxystylesheet=wnews&output=xml_no_dtd&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&filter=p&getfields=wnnis&sort=date:D:S:d1&partialfields=-wnnis:NOAVSYND&lr=-lang_ja"
title="Search News">Angela Merkel</a>
faces “massive” public protests this fall as
demonstrators
attempt to derail her plan to prolong the use of
nuclear power,
the co-leader of the Green Party said. </p>
<p>A movement that includes clean-energy businesses,
doctors
and students is preparing to confront Merkel over the
planned
extension of the running time of nuclear plants by an
average of
12 years, <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://search.bloomberg.com/search?q=Claudia%20Roth&site=wnews&client=wnews&proxystylesheet=wnews&output=xml_no_dtd&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&filter=p&getfields=wnnis&sort=date:D:S:d1&partialfields=-wnnis:NOAVSYND&lr=-lang_ja"
title="Search News">Claudia Roth</a>, co-chairwoman
of the Greens, said in an
interview yesterday. While the movement has echoes of
the 1970s
and 1980s rallies that gave rise to the Green Party,
Merkel has
awakened a “new dimension” of opposition, Roth said. </p>
<p>“I can guarantee that this government has never
experienced protests along the lines of what’s
coming,” Roth
said in a phone interview from a party convention in
the western
city of Mainz. “They won’t be able to ignore it.” </p>
<p>Germany’s opposition groups are stepping up their
campaign
against nuclear power as Merkel seeks to steer the
bill granting
the extension through parliament. Her Cabinet is set
to ratify
the energy plan on Sept. 28. While she can rely on her
majority
to push the plan through the lower house, legal
opinion is
divided on whether Merkel can bypass the upper
chamber, the
Bundesrat, where her bloc is outnumbered by the
opposition. </p>
<p>Opposition Social Democrats have threatened legal
challenges if she attempts to circumvent the
Bundesrat. </p>
<p>Merkel’s popularity has sagged since her re-election
a year
ago. The ruling coalition dropped one percentage point
to 36
percent support in a <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.presseportal.de/pm/6329/1677878/gruner_jahr_stern"
title="Open Web Site" rel="external">Forsa poll</a>
on Sept. 8, more than 12 points
below its result in last year’s vote. </p>
<p>Greens Gain </p>
<p>The Greens gained two points to 21 percent, the
party’s
highest poll rating ever. It was the Greens, then led
by <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://search.bloomberg.com/search?q=Joschka%20Fischer&site=wnews&client=wnews&proxystylesheet=wnews&output=xml_no_dtd&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&filter=p&getfields=wnnis&sort=date:D:S:d1&partialfields=-wnnis:NOAVSYND&lr=-lang_ja"
title="Search News">Joschka Fischer</a>, who helped
author the phase-out of nuclear energy by
about 2022 in a coalition with Chancellor <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://search.bloomberg.com/search?q=Gerhard%20Schroeder&site=wnews&client=wnews&proxystylesheet=wnews&output=xml_no_dtd&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&filter=p&getfields=wnnis&sort=date:D:S:d1&partialfields=-wnnis:NOAVSYND&lr=-lang_ja"
title="Search News">Gerhard Schroeder</a>’s
Social Democrats in 2002. </p>
<p>“The government is suffering not only on the nuclear
issue, but also in other political areas,” said <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://search.bloomberg.com/search?q=Hans-Juergen%20Hoffmann&site=wnews&client=wnews&proxystylesheet=wnews&output=xml_no_dtd&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&filter=p&getfields=wnnis&sort=date:D:S:d1&partialfields=-wnnis:NOAVSYND&lr=-lang_ja"
title="Search News">Hans-Juergen Hoffmann</a>, head
of Berlin-based pollster Psephos. With Merkel set
overhaul health-care and cut spending on defense while
facing
further repercussions from Europe’s debt crisis, the
risk to her
government “is already recognizable in the political
atmosphere
and what you see in the polls.” </p>
<p>A Sept. 18 demonstration, organized by anti-nuclear
groups
including <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.campact.de/campact/homev"
title="Open Web Site" rel="external">Campact.de</a>,
will feature a march by tens of thousands
of protesters to the Reichstag and a symbolic
“encircling” of
the government quarter in Berlin, Campact director
Christoph
Bautz said by phone. Further “huge protests” are
planned in
Gorleben, a nuclear-waste dump, and Stuttgart, Roth
said. </p>
<p>Nuclear Extension </p>
<p>In Merkel’s nuclear plan, she squelched the bickering
between her Christian Democratic-led bloc and Free
Democratic
Party coalition partners to forge agreement on an
extension of
the licenses held by Germany’s 17 atomic plants. The
accord was
excoriated by the opposition and activists as a
giveaway to
industry and harmful to the environment. </p>
<p>E.ON AG and RWE AG, Germany’s two biggest utilities,
rallied in Frankfurt trading after the deal was
announced. The
companies have still tumbled more than 20 percent
since the
start of the year, making them among the benchmark DAX
Index’s
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/quote?ticker=DAX:IND"
class="web_ticker" title="Get Quote">three biggest
losers</a>. </p>
<p>Merkel spent this week defending the deal negotiated
with
the four main energy producers: E.ON, RWE, EnBW
Energie Baden-
Wuerttemberg AG and Vattenfall AB. More than half of
the profit
from extending plant running times will be put into
renewable-
energy development and the budget, Merkel said on
Sept. 7. </p>
<p>The government’s plan is a betrayal of Germany’s
“consensus” to exit nuclear energy, said Roth. That
has
bolstered the current protests beyond the traditional
activist
base to reach different age groups, church bodies and
small
businesses specialized in renewable-energy
technologies who see
their livelihoods at risk. </p>
<p>“The protests are much broader now -- they include a
lot
of young people who now know that nuclear power
doesn’t create
jobs, but <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/quote?ticker=GRUEPR:IND"
class="web_ticker" title="Get Quote">eliminates jobs</a>,”
Roth said. “It’s not just the old
fighters who are out there protesting, but a lot of
young people
as well. Old and new movements have come together.” </p>
<p>To contact the reporter on this story:
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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title="Search News">Patrick Donahue</a> in Berlin at
at
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:pdonahue1@bloomberg.net" title="Send
E-mail">pdonahue1@bloomberg.net</a>. </p>
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