Likely new Chancellor Friedrich Merz still needs Greens to push through constitutional change needed to ease 'debt-brake' on an infrastructure fund and defence spendingBritta Haßelmann, floor leader of the Greens in Germany's parliament, the BundestagPhoto: STEFAN_KAMINS...
Most recently, German Green leader Omid Nouripour dismissed as "nonsense" French calls for stricter driving licence regulations after political opponents in Germany framed them as a way to introduce an eco-friendly speed limit through the backdoor. German Greens turn against French comrades in ...
BERLIN, May 27 (Xinhua) -- The German Green Party (Die Gruenen) was the biggest winner of the European elections in Germany, almost doubling its share of the votes to 20.5 percent, according to the final election results published by the European Parliament on Monday. "That is the best r...
BERLIN, Nov. 12 (Xinhua) -- Germany's green party (Gruene) parliamentary faction leader Katrin Goering-Eckardt has urged Horst Seehofer (CSU) to resign from his post as the federal interior minister with immediate effect on Monday. "Every day which Horst Seehofer stays on as interior ministe...
The Greens nominated Cem Ozdemir, a former party leader, as agriculture minister. The son of a textile factory worker and a teacher who came as guest workers in the 1960s, he will be the first member of Germany's three-million-strong ethnic Turkish population to serve as a federal minister...
Germany’s environmentalist Greens have chosen co-leader Annalena Baerbock to make their first bid for the chancellery in the country’s September election. Ms Baerbock’s nomination was unveiled by the party’s other co-leader, Robert Habeck, in a smoothly staged announcement that contrasted with...
In 1998, during his first week in office, German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer, also the leader of the country's Green Party, made perfectly clear that he was "the foreign minister of Germany, not of the Greens" and that he would pursue a German, not a Green, foreign policy. Since ...
The leader of the SDP, Olaf Scholz and the likely new Chancellor has expressed an interest in leading a coalition with Die Grünen (the Green party) who won 118 seats and the pro-business FDP who won 92 seats. Show more - Description Published by , Jan 22, 2025...
The German Empire is the leader of Mitteleuropa, more formally known as the Central European Customs Union, an economic bloc formed during the early 1920s to cement German economic hegemony across the European continent. Not only Germany's direct Eastern European satellite states (Oststaaten) are ...
Robert Habeck, the co-leader of Germany’s Green party, called for a thorough investigation into the incident. “The fact that Nazis with imperial war flags try to storm the Bundestag recalls the darkest period in German history,” he told the Funke media group. “An incident like on Saturd...