“I think it would be good if the(Christian Democratic) Union (CDU), FDP, SPD and Greens would reach anagreement together in the Bundestag (lower house) and the Bundesrat (upperhouse),” Altmaier told the Die Zeit newspaper.

“Our Energiewende mustn’t be crushed in abattle of parties and regional interests. The new EEG (renewable energy act)must hold for the coming ten to twenty years,” he said, adding a consensus isimportant so that the reform survives even in the case of a future change ingovernment.

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