A "green backlash" helped conservatives win in Germany. What happens now?

A "green backlash" helped conservatives win in Germany. What happens now?

In February, Germany held an election that had many echoes of the one America held in November. Voters were incensed with inflation — especially electricity prices, which surged 80 percent after Russia invaded Ukraine and never returned to normal. Right-wing parties channeled that fury toward the incumbent government’s green policies, including the pioneering Energiewende decarbonization plan that has made renewable energy more than half of the …

A “green backlash” helped conservatives win in Germany. What happens now?

In February, Germany held an election that had many echoes of the one America held in November. Voters were incensed with inflation - especially electricity prices, which surged 80 percent after Russia invaded Ukraine and never returned to normal. Right-wing parties channeled that fury toward the incumbent government's green policies, including the pioneering Energiewende decarbonization plan that has made renewable energy more than half of the …