http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5g6cTuMU5Jy9xTL7Suq9xXqTWO5JA?docId=CNG.6fd6a816fa2b4286b8457e1c9184f31c.561
Author's sex-for-nuclear-veto offer to German president
(AFP) - 8 hours ago
BERLIN - German writer Charlotte Roche offered in an interview Sunday to
spend the night with President Christian Wulff if he votes against
government plans to extend the lifetime of Germany's nuclear reactors.
"I am offering to sleep with him if he does not sign," the 32-year-old
anti-nuclear activist told the weekly Der Spiegel.
"My husband agrees. Now it is up to the First Lady to give her consent," she
said. "I am tattooed."
Roche, British-born author of the sexually explicit 2008 bestseller
"Wetlands", took part in major demonstrations last week against the
transport
of radioactive waste that underlined unease in Germany over
nuclear power.
Wulff has to decide this year if a law prolonging the lifetime of the
country's 17 nuclear reactors by up to 14 years should be enacted without
the consent of the Bundesrat, the upper chamber of parliament that
represents the regions.
The hotly disputed plans were approved by cabinet in September and will
postpone by more than a decade to around 2035 the date when Europe's biggest
economy abandons nuclear power.
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According to Nucleonics Week (November 11, 2010),
" the upper house of Germany's parliament, the Bundesrat, said November 5 it
would not vote on nuclear plant lifetime extension, rejecting a motion from
the political opposition that it do so....
The decision is a key victory for Chancellor Angela Merkel's coalition
government of Christian Democrats and Free Democrats.
The
Bundesrat was not consulted in 2002 on legislation introduced by a
previous Left-Green government that set the conditions for a nuclear power
phase-out by 2022."
....but what the heck, Charlotte can still sleep with Wulff (just don't
anyone tell her the news).
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