Greens Story

I sat and reviewed a piece by N-24 (a commercial German news network) on the evolving German Green Party.

The Greens are preparing in some way for the EU June 2019 representative election, but also trying to revitalize their impact to the German voter.

So their new program is packaged up into roughly 101 pages. 

The intent?  To evolve the party into a sort of 'left people's party' (50-percent Green, 50-percent socialist). 

The various angles to this?  Dumping all coal production within the EU within 12 years.  Ban all fossil fuels in the EU by 2050.  Hype up CO2 taxes.  They want a EU corporate tax instead of individual nation taxes. 

A lot of this is geared toward the 2019 June EU election, and the perception that the Greens might be able to take a number of votes away from the SPD and Linke Party.  Selling this 101 page document to the public?  I would suggest a lot of forum chatter and discussion will come out of this, with a number of folks being skeptical. 

If a EU corporate tax did occur, and businesses felt it was unfair....they'd simply pack up and leave the EU in terms of management and production.  On that level, I'd be fairly skeptical of the intentions. 

But here's the key thing.  Most all of the political parties in Germany are at some stage where they need to reinvent themselves.  So this is the first group to emerge and show their future trend.