While Germany’s long-ruling centre-right parties continue to offer more of the same, the Greens have recently emerged as a serious contender in the run-up to September’s federal elections. Rather than demanding that Germans give up their lifestyles, the Greens are promising to make Germany a better version of itself. But how will this affect German foreign policy? Host Mark Leonard talks to Franziska Brantner, spokesperson for European Policy and Parliamentary Secretary of Bündnis90/Die Grünen’s parliamentary group as well as Janka Oertel, head of ECFR´s Asia programme to discuss what Germany’s future with a Green government would look like.
This podcast was recorded on 29 April 2021.
Further reading:
•“Germany’s Green Velvet Revolution?” by Mark Leonard:
https://buff.ly/2RcOTb6
Bookshelf:
•“Green Recovery Tracker":
https://www.greenrecoverytracker.org/
•“Heimat Europa?” by Martin Ramb & Holger Zaborowski,
• “China’s FinTech: the end of the wild west” by Viviana Zhu