CDU isn't "beholden" to SPD and Greens, they just know that lying about what you are going to do is much cheaper and easier than actually doing it. If CDU truly

CDU isn't "beholden" to SPD and Greens, they just know that lying about what you are going to do is much cheaper and easier than actually doing it. If CDU truly cared about nuclear power, the time to do something would've been the 16 years they were in power during which the shutdowns were planned and prepared, and undoing that would've been relatively easy, not once it was done or in final stages.