The SPD and Green coalition that governs Germany has made notable progress and demonstrated flexibility in the process. But the Greens' lack of expertise needs redressing If good science is to get the support it deserves. An agreement last week within the German coalition government to ban the reprocessing of nuclear waste is a small milestone in German politics — a goal to which the majority of Social Democrats were always committed, but whose attainment was accelerated by their junior coalition partners, the Green party. Should researchers be worried about the impact of Green politics on other technologies and on science?
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