Angela Merkel stands behind climate truants

berlin - German Chancellor Angela Merkel has joined the students who demonstrate weekly for a better climate during school hours. With that she deviates from most politicians,...

'I totally agree that schoolchildren are taking to the streets for the protection of the climate and are fighting for it,' Merkel said in a podcast.

Pupils go to the streets every week in Germany under the motto FridaysForFuture, following the Swedish activist Greta Thunberg. He walked this week in a protest march in Hamburg. 'Politicians and people in power have been away for too long to do nothing to stop the climate crisis,' she said.