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Are there any German's that can give some context as to why the rest of the ruling coalition don't just turn around to the greens and tell them to go stuff them

Are there any German's that can give some context as to why the rest of the ruling coalition don't just turn around to the greens and tell them to go stuff themselves and keep the nuclear power plants running for another couple of years. Are there no other possible partners or is it politically impossible to break coalition agreements I Germany? I'm assuming that the German greens are not amenable to reason when it comes to nuclear powerand pollution.

mkl95 4y ago
Populism. The average European is afraid of nuclear energy. Pleasing your potential voters is much easier than educating them.
- AdrianB1 4y ago
  There is no average European, I know at least 2 very different countries (France and Romania) where nuclear energy is popular.
- throwoutway 4y ago
  It’s become vogue to blame everything on populism. This sounds like too simplistic of an excuse, and not even a real answer to OP’s question.
origin_path 4y ago
Not German but the issues here are generic. If they could do that it almost by definition wouldn't be a coalition. Nuclear is apparently a red line for the Greens. If they were to be kicked out of government then that government would collapse. Forming new governments can take a very long time in European PR systems - half a year isn't unheard of. The choice here is really one of either: 1. Convince the Greens to change. If they do they'll probably be destroyed at the next election, because they have relatively few well known positions and they already abandoned some of them. If they abandon their opposition to AKW then they will be left with nothing. 2. Collapse the government, meaning no decision making ability at all. The latter may potentially open up the possibility of new alliances, but they would be between ideologically opposed parties and therefore highly unstable. Lesser of two evils, right?

mkl95 4y ago

Populism. The average European is afraid of nuclear energy. Pleasing your potential voters is much easier than educating them.

AdrianB1 4y ago
There is no average European, I know at least 2 very different countries (France and Romania) where nuclear energy is popular.
throwoutway 4y ago
It’s become vogue to blame everything on populism. This sounds like too simplistic of an excuse, and not even a real answer to OP’s question.

origin_path 4y ago

Not German but the issues here are generic. If they could do that it almost by definition wouldn't be a coalition. Nuclear is apparently a red line for the Greens. If they were to be kicked out of government then that government would collapse. Forming new governments can take a very long time in European PR systems - half a year isn't unheard of. The choice here is really one of either: 1. Convince the Greens to change. If they do they'll probably be destroyed at the next election, because they have relatively few well known positions and they already abandoned some of them. If they abandon their opposition to AKW then they will be left with nothing. 2. Collapse the government, meaning no decision making ability at all. The latter may potentially open up the possibility of new alliances, but they would be between ideologically opposed parties and therefore highly unstable. Lesser of two evils, right?