Activists have unfurled a giant protest banner in Berlin as Germany's parliament voted to extend the life of nuclear plants.
Greenpeace demonstrators scaled the headquarters of Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democrat party to drape the banner down its glass facade.
Others formed a human chain around the lower house of parliament, the Bundestag.
Inside, MPs voted through the energy bill by 308 votes to 289.
The country's 17 nuclear plants are having their operating life extended by an average of 12 years.
In 2000, the then Chancellor, Gerhard Schroeder, agreed to mothball the last power plant by 2021, in response to public concerns over safety.
Mrs Merkel intends to channel some of the billions of extra euros the plant operators will earn into solar and wind power.
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