Germany Touts Green Stimulus in Post Covid-19 Policy Push

Germany’s green energy shift may get a financial shot in the arm when the impact of the coronavirus ebbs, according to a senior member of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s cabinet.

When the virus’ acute phase is over, the government plans a stimulus package that advances the nation technologically and helps the economy’s move toward climate neutrality, Finance Minister Olaf Scholz said in an interview with Funke Mediengruppe. Such a package “makes sense,” said the Social Democrat without adding details.

Such a move would allow Germany, Europe’s biggest emitter of greenhouse gases, to exploit a positive environmental quirk of Covid-19’s affect ...