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Traffic light government: EU coordination still stalled

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Published: January 26th, 2022,
Last updated: May 28th, 2025

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Robert Habeck’s agenda for his first trip to Brussels as a minister was plenty full – the list of interlocutors included Ursula von der Leyen and half a dozen of her commissioners. But the Green Party politician was asked almost exclusively about one topic during his visit: the German government’s position on the supplementary legal act on taxonomy. „My personal-political opinion is that if nuclear energy stays in it, as it is now, Germany should vote no,“ Habeck replied.

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Federal Government Germany Robert Habeck Taxonomy European policy Traffic light coalition