Germany drops environment plan as election looms

摘要

Germany has dropped a proposal to unify environmental rules for industrial and infrastructure projects, highlighting the difficulties of getting agreement between its ruling parties in an election year.rnEnvironment Minister Sigmar Gabriel, of the centre-left Social Democrats (SPD), put the blame for failure to agree the measure squarely on conservatives in the state of Bavaria, saying they were showing a "hollow reluctance to reform and blind blocking policies."