While France teeters on the brink of the far right, left parties elsewhere are showing surprising strength.
These Are the Elections That Will Decide Europe’s Fate
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Greens
German Activism: Bridging the East-West Divide
Twenty years ago, the West German Greens and the East German citizen movements created a political alliance that continues to this day.
Germany Votes and Austerity Reigns–For Now
Europe's most powerful nation has voted. On September 22nd, the people of Germany granted Angela Merkel a huge victory, awarding her center-right party nearly 50 percent of the seats in the federal parliament, the Bundestag. Although Merkel’s victory was a foregone...
Elites vs. Greens in the Global South
Last month’s conference on climate change in Bali, Indonesia, brought the North-South fault line in climate politics into sharp relief. While U.S. intransigence on the question of mandatory cuts in greenhouse gas emissions took center stage, not far behind was the issue of what commitments fast-growing developing countries like China and India should make in a new, post-Kyoto climate change regime.