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You're right, if CDU and FDP don't have a majority, CDU and the Greens likely will. And coalitions between them have been contemplated on a state level earlier, but it has never materialized. On a federal level the Greens and the CDU are too much apart to work together in a meaningful way, IMHO. AFAIK, the Greens are more to the left than the SPD.

BTW, the Greens are against tuition fees up to the first academic degree. I haven't yet read the manifesto of the CDU in detail to judge the overlap, but it's not large, no doubt.

by hesk on Wed Aug 10th, 2005 at 02:05:54 PM EST
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Maybe it's the British Greens who favour tuition fees?

_{*Lunatic*, n.

One whose delusions are out of fashion.}

by DoDo on Thu Aug 11th, 2005 at 05:11:59 AM EST
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Well, as I said, I am out of this since about 10 years, but when I was discussing things with this guy Nach meiner Wahl in den Bundestag 1994 begann ich meine bildungspolitische Arbeit mit der Entwicklung eines eigenen Konzepts zur elternunabhängigen Studienfinanzierung (BAFF-Modell).
It was rather neo-liberal. As I said, I have not checked on their policies since. well, now I just did: sorry all in German It might not be part of their election manifest, and I know the fzs is rather leftish (hehe), but this looks very much like the stuff we were discussing ten years ago. Same Partners as well. Heinrich Boell and CHE - Bertelsmann foundation(any bells).

by PeWi on Thu Aug 11th, 2005 at 07:23:36 AM EST
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I meant Heinrich Boell Foundation of course, affiliated with the Green Party ... is a legally independent political foundation working in the spirit of intellectual openness.

by PeWi on Thu Aug 11th, 2005 at 07:48:01 AM EST
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