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Green Party of Germany

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Also known as: Alliance ’90/The Greens, Bündnis ’90/Die Grünen, Die Grünen, the Greens
Written by
David P. Conradt
Professor of Political Science, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina. Author of The Germany Polity and others.
David P. Conradt
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German:
Die Grünen
In full:
Alliance ’90/The Greens or
German:
Bündnis ’90/Die Grünen
Areas Of Involvement:
environmentalism
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Green Party of Germany, German environmentalist political party. It first won representation at the national level in 1983, and from 1998 to 2005 it formed a coalition government with the Social Democratic Party (SPD). In 2021 the Greens posted their best-ever performance in a federal election, claiming almost 15 percent of the vote. The Green Party traces its origins to the student protest movement of the 1960s, the environmentalist movement of the 1970s, and the peace movement of the early 1980s. The focus of the environmentalist protest was nuclear power, and the movement was directed especially at German labour, businesses, ...(100 of 1160 words)

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