Chancellor Merkels decision to step aside and the German coal phase out
b'Following two politically damaging federal state election results, German Chancellor Angela Merkel announced on Monday 29 October that she would not seek re-election as the head of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party at leadership elections in December. ICIS experts Roy Manuell and Tasmin Chowdhary discuss who might replace her and how the changing political situation could affect energy policy and the work of the German coal exit commission.'