Brussels, 19/07/2011 (Agence Europe) - Angela Merkel, who welcomed Russian President Dimitri Medvedev on Tuesday, minimised her country's future dependency on Russian gas now that it has decided to renounce nuclear power.
The German Chancellor hosted a bilateral summit with Russia in Hanover on Tuesday 19 July. She gave her assurance that Germany's scheduled cessation of nuclear power by 2022 would be largely offset by coal-fired power plants or renewable energies. She said the rise in...