Greens criticise Schulzās omission of climate protection statement
The German Green Party has criticised the Social Democrat candidate for chancellor, Martin Schulz, for not having taken a clear stance on climate protection yet, news agency dpa reports. The Greenās parliamentary group chairman Anton Hofreiter told dpa that in the current grand coalition government with Angela Merkelās conservative CDU party, Schulzās SPD party had slowed down the Energiewende and ignored climate protection. āI havenāt seen Schulz setting a course on this matter yet,ā Hofreiter told the news wire. However, he said he regarded pro-European Schulz as an āinteresting candidateā whose nomination by the SPD could āonly benefitā the election battle if it motivated people to take an interest in politics.
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