In particular different views on the Energiewende – Germany’s transition away from nuclear energy towards renewables – becameapparent during the six-hour second round of discussions between the twosides last night, Green party leaders Cem Özdemir and Claudia Roth said afterthe talks in Berlin.

There is no solid basis for a cooperation that would lastfor four years of government, Roth said, calling Merkel’s statements on theEnergiewende “diffuse and little concrete".

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