Merkel Tightens Grip on Energy Overhaul as Progress Lags
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel is tightening her grip on the biggest energy overhaul in the country’s history, assigning a party enforcer to speed the transition amid signs her 12-month-old policy shift has stalled.
Peter Altmaier, the chief whip and deputy floor leader of Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union, tomorrow is set to take the environment minister post. The following day he’ll begin negotiating with leaders of Germany’s states at a meeting with Merkel after they rejected a government bill in the upper house that would have cut solar-power subsidies by a record this year.