Left Party says coal commission lacks eastern German representatives
The planned commission that will prepare the end of coal-fired power production in Germany does not include enough representatives from eastern Germany, the Left Party was quoted as saying in an article written by the news agency dpa and carried by the Berliner Morgenpost. 鈥淚t doesn鈥檛 help if the energy transition and the coal exit are perceived as imposed decisions in the eastern German regions,鈥� said the party鈥檚 energy policy spokesman, Lorenz G枚sta Beutin. Difficult political decisions like those facing the eastern coal region of Lusatia 鈥渘eed to give special attention to the eastern German concerns and interests, which is best done by people who have experienced the German reunification鈥� and the upheavals it caused in the east, he said. Two of the commission鈥檚 leaders - former Saxony state premier Stanislaw Tillich, a conservative, and former Brandenburg state premier Matthias Platzeck, a social democrat - are from eastern Germany, but the region is underrepresented in the rest of the commission, the article says.
Read the article in German .
See the 麻豆无码版 factsheets on Coal in Germany and on Germany鈥檚 coal exit commission for background.