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Land of several chancellors, the Rhineland returns to the heart of German politics

2021-01-15T20:23:06.351Z


REPORT - The three candidates to succeed Angela Merkel at the head of the CDU come from this region. Special envoy to Bergheim and Düsseldorf In ten years or so, the Niederaussem lignite power station will stop spitting its enormous smoke into the sky. Due to the magnitude of its nitrogen dioxide emissions, this industrial site has become the most polluting in Europe. And Patrick Müller knows that because of this decision, he will probably lose his job. But this 30-year-old electrician does not


Special envoy to Bergheim and Düsseldorf

In ten years or so, the Niederaussem lignite power station will stop spitting its enormous smoke into the sky.

Due to the magnitude of its nitrogen dioxide emissions, this industrial site has become the most polluting in Europe.

And Patrick Müller knows that because of this decision, he will probably lose his job.

But this 30-year-old electrician does not hold it against the CDU of the chancellor who nevertheless bars his professional future.

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Better, this former Social Democratic sympathizer now votes for the center-right Christian Democrats.

The latter follow a clearer line than the SPD, which itself is sailing with the ecological wind.

I don't like it,

”he explains, while loading groceries from the supermarket into his trunk.

A construction helmet with the logo of RWE, the German electricity giant, rests on the back seat.

By the incessant emission of its toxic volutes, the power station of Niederaussem, of which, it is said

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Source: lefigaro

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