CHRONOLOGY OF GERMANY’S GREEN PARTY
04.19.08 - Leído 78 veces. Enviar esta notaDavid Cutler
Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats (CDU) sealed their first state coalition with the Greens party in Hamburg on Thursday, forming an odd-couple tie-up that could serve as a model for a federal government
GERMANY; April 19, 2008.- Formed in 1980 as a loose coalition of pacifists, Socialists environmentalists and feminists, the Greens have sat uneasily in government.
Here is a short chronology of significant Green moments:
Oct. 1992 - Germany’s Green Party founder Petra Kelly is found dead. Kelly had helped to found the German Greens from a coalition of peace movement and environment activists and was one of its first members of parliament.
Sept./Oct. 1998 - Social Democrats under Gerhard Schroeder win the federal election. Schroeder seals a coalition with the Greens and names Green party leader, Joschka Fischer, foreign minister and deputy chancellor. The Green Party joins the federal government for first time.
May 1999 - The Greens emerge strengthened from a turbulent party congress where pacifists’ anti-NATO demands are defeated. Party leaders and analysts say the Greens had come of age by beating back radical left-wing demands for an immediate halt to NATO’s Yugoslav bombing campaign.
June 2000 - Fischer backs a government plan to end nuclear power by 2020 - a longer timespan than some in his party sought.
Nov. 2001 - The Greens vote by a large majority to back the deployment of troops in Afghanistan, averting the collapse of the coalition government. Greens co-leader Claudia Roth described the vote at the party’s congress as the “most difficult decision in the history of our party.” Parliament approves the motion the next month.
Sept 2002 - Fischer confirms his status as Germany’s most popular politician as he leads his Greens to their best election result.
Feb. 2003 - Fischer says he remains unconvinced of the case for a war against Iraq and rejects suggestions Europe is divided on the issue, saying public opinion is firmly anti-war.
March 2003 - Fischer, addressing the UN Security Council, says it is still possible to peacefully disarm Iraq and that Berlin therefore rejects war on Baghdad.
Nov. 2005 - Angela Merkel’s new coalition government of conservatives and Social Democrats (SPD) takes over from Gerhard Schroeder’s SPD-Greens alliance. The Greens are left out of government at federal level.
Apr. 2008 - The Greens seal a coalition with the CDU at state level in Hamburg.
(Reuters)
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