Westerwelle wants to follow in the footsteps of Genscher so he'll go to the Auswärtiges Amt. As for the sustainability experiment and all the rest, you can block a lot while being in the opposition. The parties on the left now have to look to May 2010 and try to get into the government again in NRW. They also have to try to form coalitions in Thuringia, Saarland and Schleswig-Holstein.

In the end I think this election bodes worse for the rights of the German labourer and the privatisation of further public services than for the green sector.