Germany's resurgent Green party, its sights set on the chancellery in September's election, has stumbled on the campaign
trail over undeclared bonus payments and controversial comments about arming
Ukraine.
Having just announced their first ever chancellor candidate, Germany's Green Party is now leading in the polls ahead of September’s elections. How did what started as a grassroots movement gain a stronghold in German politics?
Germany's Greens are continuing their upward trajectory, with the ecologist party overtaking Chancellor Angela
Merkel's conservatives in a new opinion poll just five months before a general election.
It doesn’t matter if it’s a music subscription, mobile phone contract or electricity provider: quitting a service is often much harder than buying something on the internet. Here's how that could change in 2020.
Germany's far-right AfD on Monday named the
Greens its main rival after the environmentalist party's strong showing at
European elections, as it insisted that data showed "no consensus" that
climate change is man-made.
On Sunday the eastern city of Görlitz will vote in a new mayor. Green party candidate Franziska Schubert told The Local how she strives to make her city - where there's been a spike to the right - more open, friendly and innovative.
The German Green Party party recorded an all-time high in the number of members, especially in eastern Germany, according to federal managing director Michael Kellner.
A week from now on Sunday, October 28th, voters in Hesse will decide whether the Christian Democrats (CDU)-Green coalition state government should stay in power. But it’s about much more than that. Elections in Hesse rarely receive such attention on a national level.
While Germany's mainstream political parties are floundering in the face of a right-wing populist onslaught, the ecologist Greens are gaining in popularity and looking to capture once enemy terrain.
The leader of the Green party in the Bundestag, Katrin Göring-Eckardt, said on Tuesday that her party would attempt to change the constitution to include the goals of the Paris Climate Accord.
Green Party co-chairman Robert Habeck has weighed in on the debate surrounding Mesut Ă–zil's retirement from the German national football team, saying that interior minister Horst Seehofer (CSU) must shoulder some of the blame.
Germany's Greens party, after
years in opposition, has a shot of returning to power and promoting its leftist and pro-environment agenda as junior coalition partner to Chancellor Angela Merkel.
Germany's Green party has suggested drastic consequences for the US President after he ordered a temporary travel block for refugees and citizens of seven predominantly Muslim countries.
The opposition Green Party claimed on Tuesday evening that the German government admitted to knowing about Volkswagen's emissions cheating software in July - and did nothing about it.
Two thirds of highly-qualified immigrants in Germany from outside the EU want to live and work in the country long-term, a government survey has found. But those from wealthier countries are less likely to stay and politicians say more should be done to keep them here.
The German Parliament will meet on Friday to discuss plans to restrict immigration from Balkan countries which would see Serbia, Macedonia and Bosnia-Herzegovina classed as “safe countries of origin”.
Germany’s Green Party appears to be warming to the idea of joining Angela Merkel in government with its leaders giving off signals that the ecological party would welcome a return to the corridors of power.
Claudia Schmidt initially seems like a typical 'wine queen' (Weinkönigin). She's got the flowing white dress, long silk gloves and very sparkly tiara - and lit up the otherwise downbeat Greens election party at Berlin's Columbiahalle last Sunday.
In the fifth part of The Local's guide to the main parties competing in Germany's election, we look at Europe's most successful environmental party - Die GrĂĽnen (the Greens).
