Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s outgoing coalition may not admit it, but their completion of Merkel’s accelerated nuclear exit was a mistake.
Angela Merkel’s freshly released autobiography admits to few wrong turns in her 16 years as German chancellor. Among the momentous decisions she doesn’t regret is Germany’s frantic withdrawal from nuclear energy in favor of Russian gas.
But the country should rethink this. Everyone else is — and for good reason.

