Germany's Greens: “I don’t want the last car made in Germany to end up in a museum”

Main image:  LAST week I caught up with Cem Özdemir, lead candidate of Germany's Green Party, to talk about his country's future. The latest polls put his party on about 8%. Mr Özdemir's perspective matters, for two reasons.First, the polls suggest that Angela Merkel may have to choose between another "grand coalition" with the Social Democrats (SPD)—who are fed up with governing with her—and a three-way coalition with the centre-left Greens and the right-liberal Free Democrats (FDP). In the latter scenario (called "Jamaica" as the colours of the parties match those of country's flag) Mr Özdemir might well become Germany's foreign minister. That would make him the second Green to hold that job after Joschka Fischer and the first Turkish-German to hold any major government rank (his father moved to Germany from Tokat, north-east of Ankara).Second, Mr Özdemir is actually willing to discuss the big challenges facing Germany. Whether or not you agree with him, this is welcome in an election campaign marked and marred by the big parties' inability to talk what Germans call Klartext, or frank sense, about the big issues. How should the Euro zone advance? What are Germany's international responsibilities? How can the country's business model be made fit for the future? How can the country's car industry get ...

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