21st March 2019
EP Desk

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has said she supports school students’ protests about climate change.

It appears to contradict some education officials, who have criticized participants for skipping school and threatened them with exclusion.  

 

Mrs Merkel said students might be frustrated at the time taken to move away from coal-based energy but asked them to understand it was a challenge.

 

Across the world, some students have been leaving school to demand action. On Friday thousands of high school students in the city of Hamburg marched against climate change, with Swedish activist Greta Thunberg - who started the series of school strikes - present.

 

But the city’s education official, Ties Rabe, wrote on Twitter: “No-one makes the world better by skipping school.”

  


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