“Greens on the defensive”
Handelsblatt
The Green Party is slumping in national polls as security and migration overshadow the party’s core topics of the environment and climate, writes Silke Kersting in Handelsblatt. “Yet, the conditions for the party to again play a bigger part on a national level are good: the Greens are part of the government in 11 of the 16 federal states. Nothing happens without them in the Bundesrat [council of federal state governments],” writes Kersting.
Recent polls show the Greens at 7 percent.
Read the article in German here.
For background information read the CLEW dossier Vote2017 - German elections and the Energiewende and the CLEW article German Greens to make coal exit, fossil car ban an election focus.
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