Just a week after choosing their candidate for chancellor — party co-leader Annalena Baerbock — the Greens’ poll numbers are on fire.
For any German who has supported Merkel’s centrist course, the Greens’ new “Manifesto of Principles,” passed at a convention in November, will make for interesting reading.
The solution to NATO’s problems is not, in the Greens’ view, for Germany to meet its obligations to the alliance by fulfilling a pledge that all members have made to spend 2 percent of GDP on defense.
“Finally something different,” Der Stern declared in green letters under a cover photo of Baerbock in a black leather jacket.
The apex of Baerbock-mania came during her first television interview after her nomination.