Business | Pragmatic eco-warriors

Germany’s Greens and Deutschland AG cross-pollinate

Utopian environmentalists are evolving into business-friendlier pragmatists

29 July 2022, Thuringia, Schleusingen: Robert Habeck (Bündnis 90/Die Grünen), Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Climate Protection, visits the Schleusingen-based company Wiegand Glashüttenwerke GmbH and answers questions afterwards. The family-owned company produces packaging made of glass and PET. The minister's two-day tour is themed "Doing business and working in times of crisis". Photo: Soeren Stache/dpa
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If germans were to elect their chancellor directly they would, a new poll implies, vote for Robert Habeck, the economy minister in Olaf Scholz’s coalition government. Mr Habeck and Annalena Baerbock, the foreign minister, who are both from the Greens, regularly top such surveys. The next chancellor could well be a Green.

This article appeared in the Business section of the print edition under the headline “A burgeoning relationship”

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