Return to reason

The agreement reached by Germany's ruling conservative-liberal coalition to prolong running times of nuclear power plants is a revolution, writes the conservative daily Lidové noviny: "It is a revolution against the conviction that we, the citizens and voters, can have it all at once - clean, secure electricity that's cheap as well. It is a revolution against the tendency of one generation of politicians to cling to what a former generation said it would do. It is a revolution against a nuclear phase-out law pushed through eight years ago by the Social Democrat-Green Party government. Nevertheless what looks like a revolution is in fact just a return to reason. The government hasn't prolonged the running times of the nuclear power plants for its own pleasure, or to show its predecessors that it needn't hold to their regulations. Rather it is acting out of the conviction that fears of rising prices for alternative energy are greater than those of nuclear power. Whether that is really the case will be shown by the strength of protests."

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