As stupid as this policy was, it wasn't started by Merkel. She just sped it up. The previous chancellor Schröder, now a foreign Russian energy minister, set th

As stupid as this policy was, it wasn't started by Merkel. She just sped it up. The previous chancellor Schröder, now a foreign Russian energy minister, set the schedule into motion for nuclear shutdown.[1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerhard_Schr%C3%B6der#Relationship_with_Gazprom_and_Rosneft https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerhard_Schr%C3%B6der#Relation...