Merkel’s strategy to talk to both of the hitherto opposition parties at the same time likely is a tactic to ensure neither of them will make demands for a possible coalition that are too high.
Both the SPD and the Greens have more ambitious targets for renewable energies than Merkel’s outgoing government that included the liberal Free Democrats, who had become increasingly hostile to Germany’s renewables support system based on relatively generous feed-in tariffs (FITs).
Merkel’s
