“The federal government’s plans for a reform of the EEG delay the Energiewende. Parliament needs to make improvements and pass a law that accelerates the Energiewende instead of choking it off,” Hubert Weiger, chairman of the Federation for Environment and Natural Protection, or BUND, told the protesters.
According to German media and organisers such as anti-nuclear group Ausgestrahlt, between 10,000 and 12,000 people took part in the colourful demonstration, which was backed by 120 boats, canoes or rafts on the river Spree that crosses Berlin’s government district.
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