The government, in which the Greens are a coalition partner, agreed to the mine expansion by RWE on the condition the energy firm phased out coal eight years earlier than planned in the western state of North Rhine-Westphalia.
Other Greens supporters saw it as a pragmatic move when Germany needs to replace dwindling Russian gas supplies amid the Ukraine crisis but they said it should be followed by squeezing more from coalition partners to make a faster"Many people understand that other things have been prioritised for now, but this understanding will be exhausted at some point," Sascha Mueller-Kraenner, the national managing director of DUH environmental group, told Reuters.
But analysts say the Greens are facing bureaucratic hurdles and resistance from some regional governments to the renewables rollouts, and they still need to win over the FDP junior coalition partner on some areas of the environmental agenda.
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