Published: 30 Dec 12 14:16 CET | Print version
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More and more politicians are calling on the German government to establish an Energy Ministry after the next election, in the face of slow progress in the country's transition to renewable power sources.
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"More and more politicians are calling on the German government to establish an Energy Ministry after the next election, "
Is that not a desperate attempt to justify their large costs,and little results?
They may as well start planning the commission that will investigate why so many hundreds of millions of euro were spent on a scheme that was clearly doomed from the start to failure.