London: German Chancellor Angela Merkel's political future may hinge on whether she is able to pivot energy policy credibly towards renewables, after her party was humiliated by the Greens in a state where it has held power for 58 years. The Green Party made Merkel's Christian Democratic Union (CDU) suffer for her decision last year to extend the lives of Germany's oldest nuclear plants by seizing power in Baden-Württemberg, the country's third-largest state by population and one of the wealthiest regions in Europe.
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