Finance Minister Christian Linder (FDP) has proposed to prolong the phase-out of nuclear reactors, initially due to cease by the end of the year. “We have to talk about the question of energy supply in a non-ideological way,” Lindner told Germany’s first national television program ARD on Tuesday evening, adding, “We have safe nuclear power plants.”
However, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) emphasized in response to Lindner’s remarks that the whole government would stand behind the agreement to phase out nuclear energy. While he understands Lindner’s “non-ideological approach,” he stated that the government would still stick to its approach to “phase out nuclear energy.”