air is thick in germany's major cities air pollution is way over acceptable standards in mind metropole of neri is including munich stuttgart and berlin and the e.u. commission is fed up it says the seven years since the standards were adopted was a nuff time for germany to mend its air polluting ways. and the face of such long standing favors to take serious steps in and in view that the legal process will continue all member states to add to this this life threatening problem with the agency that it deserves the european commission estimates four hundred fifty thousand people die prematurely each year in europe due to the effects of air pollution clean air is not a much higher rate but the german environment minister is pushing back she says her country has done a lot heating and industrial plants have been modernized fine particle pollution is no longer a problem except in stood guard the main issue in germany is nitrogen oxide but that also has been considerably reduced to an average of five percent last year nitrogen oxide is a minute primarily by diesel engines the environment minister do