Michael Bauchmüller
Michael Bauchmüller is a parliamentary correspondent for the Süddeutsche Zeitung, covering environmental, energy and transport issues. He is the co-author of Die 10 Irrtümer der Globalisierungsgegner. Wie man Ideologie mit Fakten widerlegt ("The antiglobalists’ 10 fallacies: How to refute ideology with facts").
Updated: 5 November 2010
To cope with the decline in the price of CO2 emission permits, the European Parliament wants to take 900 million tonnes off the European market. But that won’t be enough to halt the trend. The economic crisis is just too deep. 
Eleven wagonloads of nuclear waste are barrelling down the tracks from France to Germany this weekend, and the German anti-nuclear movement is stronger than ever before. What will probably be the biggest police turnout in German postwar history could escalate – and damage, if not derail, the anti-nuclear cause.