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Outdoor wear is one of the few markets that has successfully expanded despite the recent economic crisis. The industry has experienced a boom not only in the USA, but also in Europe. Germany, the UK, Switzerland, Italy, France and Scandiavian countries - all of these markets increasingly demand functional, technologically advanced outdoor wear with appealing design. Nowadays, outdoor wear is also popular in daily lives is becoming more and more fashionable fashionable.

Posted by Richard Todd
German government announced a moratorium on nuclear energy after the nuclear disaster in Fukushima in March. It subsequently made a dramatic U-turn on the policy it had announced last autumn to extend the lives of nuclear power stations into late 2020s and 2030s.  It has now decided to close all nuclear power stations for the production of electricity by the end of 2022 (hooray I hear the masses singing!). The last plant was commissioned in the 1980s and the previous government (Red-Green) had already agreed to close them by 2022, a decision taken in 2000 and ratified by parliament in 2011.  The 8 plants closed as part of the moratorium will remain closed for good.