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Can Germany’s Greens and Free Democrats work together on climate?

Germany's Green Party and the business-focused Free Democrats aren't natural partners on climate.

Could they reconcile their ecological and economic interests and potentially work together in the next government?

  • Jeannette Cwienk
  • Deutsche Welle

In the election campaign, Germany’s potential kingmaker parties had staked out clear positions.

For the neoliberal Free Democrats, or FDP, the Greens were an “anti-innovation party that wanted to ban things.”

FDP Party leader Christian Lindner campaigned with phrases like “Green debt (…) will not happen with the FDP!”

For the Green Party, the FDP’s Party program lacked concrete plans for climate protection and…

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