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Also known as: Green Party
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Category: History & Society
Also called:
Green Party
Date:
1979 - present
Areas Of Involvement:
conservation
Related People:
Joschka Fischer
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the Greens, any of various environmentalist or ecological-oriented political parties that formed beginning in the 1970s. An umbrella organization known as the European Greens was founded in Brussels, Belg., in January 1984 to coordinate the activities of the various European parties. Green representatives sit in the European Parliament as part of the Greens/European Free Alliance. The first and most successful national party known as the Greens (die Grünen) was founded in West Germany by Herbert Gruhl, Petra Kelly, and others in 1979 and arose out of the merger of about 250 ecological and environmentalist groups. The party sought to organize ...(100 of 398 words)

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