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Europe’s strongest environmental party may for the first time aspire to the Chancellorship in Germany’s […]

The Greens have never fared better with their “co-chair” arrangement, with one man and one […]

Which clues do the exploratory talks in Baden-Württemberg offer about coalition options?

Gradually, Germans are coming to realize that Chancellor Merkel is no longer going to be […]

The German Greens govern in 11 states. They are the hinge party of Germany’s political system.

In political terms Germany differs from most Anglo-Saxon countries in at least one regard: its voting system. How does proportional voting shape forming a government, policy outcomes, and a country’s political culture?

Federal elections are set to take place in the fall of 2021 and unlike in 1998, the Greens would enter coalition negotiations with a wealth of experience in government on the Länder level, including a strong record as a federal climate force.

Europe faces a massive wave of nuclear reactor closures. But it lacks a coherent approach to organize this process. Building up capacities for exnovation would help to turn decommissioning into a strategy of ecological modernization.

The amount of nuclear waste is growing worldwide. But even 70 years after the beginning […]

Cars have taken over our cities. They pollute the air and are noisy – but […]