āIt wouldnāt have happened with the Greensā
The Green Party not being part of the federal government for the past 12 years is a āmedium-sized economic and ecologic disasterā, writes Bernd Ulrich in an opinion piece in German weekly Die Zeit. The current emissions and carmaker cartel scandal showed that the government was too interwoven with the industry and unwilling to act as the ācorrective and supervisorā it should be. āIf anyone could have pulled the car companies out of their diesel madness on time and pushed them for their own good, then it would have been the party of the ecologic cause and the long-term view, equipped with federal political power,ā writes Ulrich.
Read the opinion piece in German .
For background, read the Āé¶¹ĪŽĀė°ę dossier Vote2017 - German elections and the Energiewende.