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Article: Green with envy.(the Green Party in France hopes to emulate the success of Germany's Green Party )(Brief Article)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- November 14, 1998
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THE German Greens' success has turned their less fortunate French cousins a deep shade of, well, green. The German lot now hold three important ministries, including foreign affairs; and they have won commitments to abandon nuclear power and bring in hefty eco-taxes. Their French counterparts hold a single ministry-the environment one-and have achieved the closure of only one of France's 57 nuclear reactors despite the fact that France's various green groups won 6.8% of the vote in last year's French election, compared with the 6.7% that Germany's Greens got this September.
Why do the French Greens have relatively little clout? Because, under ...
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