The Green Party was initially founded in West Germany as Die Grünen (the Greens) in January 1980. It grew out of the anti-nuclear energy, environmental, peace, new left, and new social movements of the late 20th century.

Feb 24, 2025 · Green Party of Germany, German environmentalist political party. It first won representation at the national level in 1983, and from 1998 to 2005 it formed a coalition government with the Social Democratic Party (SPD). In the 2021 German federal election, the Greens won nearly 15 percent of the vote.

2 days ago · BERLIN — Friedrich Merz's historic spending plan for Germany hinges on the cooperation of a party many of his conservatives have often derided. It's the Greens — the defeated, center-left party that came in fourth place in the Feb. 23 election — that hold the power to foil the election winner's grand plans.

7 hours ago · Simply sign up to the German politics myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Germany’s chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz made concessions to the Greens on the first day of the old ...

Jan 28, 2025 · The Greens: From environmental party to taking government responsibility: initially mocked, the Greens are now one of Germany’s three main parties. Protection of the environment was the motivation for establishing the Greens in the early 1980s.

3 days ago · BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s Greens, whose support is needed for the prospective next government’s plans to loosen debt rules for defense spending and draw up a huge infrastructure investment fund, said Monday that they won’t support the package as things stand.. Conservative leader Friedrich Merz, who won last month’s German election, is trying to put …

02/25/2025 February 25, 2025. Although securing the second-best election result in its party history, the Greens will now become part of Germany's Bundestag opposition.

Sep 25, 2024 · The leaders of Germany’s environmentalist Greens, one of the parties in Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s troubled coalition government, announced Wednesday that they will step down after the latest in a string of disappointing election results. (Fabian Sommer/dpa via AP)

The German Green Party (Bündnis 90/Die Grünen following a 1993 merger with former East German Alliance 90) has been present in the German parliament continuously since 29 March 1983 as a parliamentarian party.

Jan 17, 2025 · Germany - Politics, Environment, Green Party: The ecologist Green Party was formed in West Germany in 1980 and merged with the eastern German Alliance ’90 in 1993. It has been the only completely new party to win national representation in …