“Massive tasks at the Green Party convention”

 The fact that a major figure from Germany's car industry, Daimler CEO Dieter Zetsche, was invited to the Green Party convention shows that the Greens are a force to be reckoned with, writes Holger Möhle in a commentary in the General-Anzeiger. The Greens were the first party to recognise environmental protection as a topic and were decisive for Germany’s nuclear exit, but they had to learn the hard way that their founding years’ convictions must be sacrificed for government participation, says Möhle. Almost twenty years ago, they scared off car drivers with demands for a drastic rise in petrol prices, “Now, both the Greens and society have moved on," he writes. "The necessity of an energy and transport transition is no longer questioned.”