Ecology at the helm?
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Olaf Scholz, campaigning for the parliamentary elections on September 26, August 27, 2021 in Berlin.
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By: Juliette Gheerbrant Follow
22 mins
It is a period of uncertainty and also of renewal which opens with the departure of Angela Merkel ... In Germany, the conservative chancellor in power since 2005 will give way to a coalition with uncertain outlines, but that does not According to the polls, there is little doubt that the Greens will be part of the next government alongside the favorite in the poll, the Social Democrat Olaf Scholz.
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But, the green people of Die Grünen, and the social democrats of the SPD are not credited with the majority. Who to partner with, which side of the political spectrum to tip the scales? This is the whole question. Too radical for some, not enough for others, they find it difficult to find a balance.
The German Greens, between debates of ideas and electoral calculations, a report by Déborah Berlioz
.
Luck rather smiled on them this year ... In the spring, the German investor Moritz Schmidt gave the German Greens one million euros; on the grounds, he explained that the profits of his bitcoin transactions were “morally questionable”. And more recently, it is from the Netherlands that the support has come:
the Dutch billionaire Steven Schuurman made a donation of 1,250,000 euros
to the Grünen
… The patron was already known for having financed political groups in his own country .
Antoine Mouteau's explanations
.
The summer of 2021 was particularly devastating for the environment in Turkey. Tens of thousands of hectares of forest have gone up in smoke, large lakes have dried up, the Sea of Marmara has been invaded by a viscous foam called "mucilage" ... These repeated disasters worry the population, but Turkey does not count for the moment no environmentalist party. Or rather, the government is preventing the Green Party from officially seeing the light of day.
In Istanbul, the explanations of Anne Andlauer.
The digital giants have a growing power with the European institutions
. A vast survey, published at the end of August 2021, attests to this: the Gafam (Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon and Microsoft), but also companies like IBM, Huawei or Vodafone are mobilizing an armada of lobbyists to try to influence the decisions of the leaders. Europeans. However, if lobbying is part of political life, not all practices are allowed ...
A survey carried out by the Corporate Europe Observatory and Lobby Control organizations. And a report by Laxmi Lota
.
This is my Europe! Alice Rouja's column speaks to us today about the vegetarian diet
which is attracting more and more young Europeans ...
Much more than a fad, a political commitment.
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