Stefan Nicola, Bloomberg

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  End of atomic age seen as Merkel’s biggest headache now

  By Stefan Nicola, Bloomberg  |  September 24, 2013

  German Chancellor Angela Merkel faces one task above all others when she returns to her desk on the seventh floor of the Chancellery: fixing the biggest shift to clean energy of any developed country in history.

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  German beer purity threatened by fracking say brewers

  By Stefan Nicola, Bloomberg  |  May 23, 2013

  German brewers called on Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government to block the tapping of shale gas by means of hydraulic fracturing, citing industry concerns that fracking could taint the purity of the country’s beer.