France’s Greens prepare to pick a standard-bearer
The party’s militant base wants to fight climate change without nuclear power
THESE ARE succulent times to be a French green. Fully 81% of respondents to a recent poll said climate change was a “very serious problem”, up from 69% in 2015. Recent wildfires, floods and a late frost are a grim reminder of environmental dangers. In local elections last year Europe Écologie Les Verts, the French Green party, won control of some big cities, including Bordeaux, Lyon and Strasbourg. And the rise of the German Greens has raised hopes of a similar breakthrough in France, ahead of presidential elections next year.
This article appeared in the Europe section of the print edition under the headline “Hoping for their time”
Europe August 28th 2021
- A visit to a stronghold of the AfD, Germany’s far-right party
- The Social Democrats’ surge upends Germany’s election campaign
- France’s Greens prepare to pick a standard-bearer
- Employment is growing strongly in the euro zone
- Bullies proclaiming “national patriarchy” harass Russian feminists
- The fiction that Turkey is a candidate to join the EU is unravelling
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