Former Environment Minister Jürgen Tritten of the Green Party once claimed that switching Germany to renewable energy wasn't going to cost citizens more than one scoop of ice cream.

前环境基尔根。特里坦的绿色党曾声称，德国转向可再生能源公民付出的成本不会超过一勺冰淇淋。

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Over the weekend, the right-leaning Christian Democratic Party (CDU) of German Chancellor Angela Merkel suffered an embarrassing, yet predictable, defeat by the left-leaning Green party in a key region of Germany.

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The country's Green Party, now coalition partners of Socialist Chancellor Gerhard Schrder, are demanding that Germany decommission its nuclear plants within seven years.

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