German magazine backtracks on Obama

Der Spiegel, a leading German newsmagazine, has recanted three weeks after attacking Barack Obama’s record on climate change (see 17 November post). According to an editorial by Thomas Kleine-Brockhoff argues: “Obama has done all that a single person can possibly do. He has become the greenest president his country has ever seen.” However, it maintains more general criticisms of Americans including conservative unions and companies which see the burning of fossil fuels as key to profits.