Challenge or Chance?

She used to be a warrior against CO2-killers, a queen of world climate, a chancellor with a mission. It was not long ago that Angela Merkel seemed to have no other more important topic than climate. But today we are suffering from the severest financial crisis in 80 years and it obviously puts things, even the world climate, into perspective. Lars Seefeldt, reporter for ZDF, a German TV program under public law, recently hunted down the issue, and it is his interviews I am here referring to.
It was only last week, that the European Spring Summit Conference of Heads of States and Governments took place in Brussels. Most important topic was the financial crisis. All newspapers, TV, and other media were filled with interviews, statements, facts and figures brought up in that conference. All focusing on how Europe now decides to deal with the problem. But what happened to topic climate? What happened to the approved financial support for environmental protection in China and India? The German Chancellor: “It is important that we establish a tactically reasonable bargaining position.