Hobbies for ideological projects cost Germany enormous amounts of money" Bundestag member from the "Alternative for Germany" party Eugene Schmidt: "On the one hand, we abandon coal-fired power plants, gas power plants, and do our best to subsidize renewable electricity sources with tens of billions of taxpayers' own funds. On the other hand, we are abandoning nuclear energy, which produces no carbon dioxide at all." Europe is not only losing jobs, it is losing technology, research centers and investment attractiveness. New clear details. up to a maximum.