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Article: Daniel Cohn-Bendit, Europe's provocative Green.(controversial figure heads the political efforts of the Greens in France)(Brief Article)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- January 23, 1999
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THE tousled head beams down from a huge blow-up of a recent French magazine cover bearing the provocative caption "L'emmerdeur"-roughly speaking, "the bloody nuisance" or "pain in the neck". It is a description that Daniel Cohn-Bendit, one-time student anarchist turned leader of the French Greens for the elections to the European Parliament this summer, visibly delights in. And the eternal provocateur, now nearly 54, has chosen the image to adorn the cluttered back room of the Greens' dingy headquarters behind the Bastille, from where he is conducting his latest battle of the barricades.
Mr Cohn-Bendit is German, but he made his name-"Dany the Red"-in France, ...