But Merkel made clearthat at least a proposal for retroactive cuts to feed-in tariffs (FITs) is off the table – as Rechargefirst reported earlier this week.

“That’s animportant signal and should calm down all those who want to invest in suchinstallations or operate them,” Merkel told reporters after themeeting.

Environment minister PeterAltmaier and economics minister Philipp Rösler in February proposed aseries of measures aimed at stopping electricity prices from rising further.

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