Why Germany鈥檚 conservative and environmentalist movements fail to form an obvious political alliance
Environmental protection and conservativism are two defining traits of German society but a corresponding political coalition of the Green Party and the CDU seems as distant as always days before this week鈥檚 parliamentary election, Fabian Federl writes on Zeit Online. One reason might be that an understanding has gained a foothold in which 鈥渃onsistent ecology鈥� always will be 鈥渁 zero sum game鈥� that produces economic losers in return for ecologic winners and which repels powerful forces in the conservative camp that are primarily occupied with conserving material privileges, Federl argues. Another reason, he says, is the Greens鈥� 鈥渁rbitrariness鈥�, as they are part of coalitions at the federal state level with virtually every other party currently present in the German parliament. If a party 鈥渇ancies expropriation [of house owners] as a political measure鈥� when in a coalition with the Left Party but 鈥渁grees on abolishing a cap on rent level rises鈥� in another coalition with the CDU and economic liberal FDP, 鈥渋t鈥檚 little wonder that they eventually become inauthentic,鈥� Federl says.
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