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Germany is going to scrap its huge state subsidies for coal , ending more than 200 hundred years of mining tradition

January 29, 2007

Government negotiators and mining company officials last night thrashed out a deal that would spell the phaseout of billions of euros in coal subsidies by 2018, but with an option to revise the decision

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