From nuclear energy to sending weapons to Ukraine, Die Grünen embraced pragmatism in 2022. Can its politicians hold their nerve?
Germany’s Green party once made its name campaigning against high military spending, nuclear power and dirty fossil fuels.
Both of the Greens’ leading lights have sought to present theirs as a party of doers, crossing over red lines of old in surprisingly fleet-footed fashion along the way. On a trip to Nigeria at the start of this week, where Baerbock and the German culture commissioner, Claudia Roth,once looted from the kingdom of Benin, a generational shift between the two former Green party leaders was palpable.
Habeck has nationalised the energy company Uniper, the country’s largest importer of gas, put the German subsidiaries of Russian companies Rosneft and Gazprom into trusteeships, and managed to fill the country’s gas storage tanks to 100% by the start of winter, in spite of a complete ceasing of deliveries from Russia. If the country can avoid a scenario of gas rationing this winter, it will be in large part due to putting pragmatism above ideological posturing.
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