If Robert Habeck were to become Germany’s next chancellor, he would not only be the first Green head of government of a major economy, but also certainly the first politician to have launched his career by translating the Liverpool poet Roger McGough. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Habeck with his Green party co-leader, Annalena Baerbock. “It has nothing to do with imagination,” Habeck says, sitting in the Green party’s Berlin offices, not far from Merkel’s chancellory. “The Greens can no longer just be the second line in the defence, to fill in the gaps that have opened in the ranks of the CDU or SPD,” Habeck says. “The Green party was founded to address issues that other parties had forgotten.

Source: The Guardian December 27, 2019 13:18 UTC