“Brigitte Zypries assumes office as economy and energy minister”
Clean Energy Wire / BMWi
Social Democrat and former state secretary Brigitte Zypries is Germany’s new Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Energy. Previous economy minister Sigmar Gabriel handed over his duties today. “Sigmar Gabriel did a good job in tying up lose ends of the Energiewende. I’m taking over a well-ordered ministry,” said Zypries at a press conference in Berlin. Zypries will not run for parliament in the September federal elections, she said.
Find a BMWi press release in German here.
For more information, read the CLEW article New energy minister seen keeping Energiewende course till elections.
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