greens vs. reds

[Dan Goncharoff]

At one point, there was talk of a red-yellow-green coalition called
the Ampel coalition. Ampel is the German word for a traffic light.

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On May 15, 2012, at 10:27 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:

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> On May 15, 2012, at 9:10 PM, Victor Steinbok wrote:
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>> This definitely sounds like Germany, where this is precisely the parties
>> usually involved in a coalition
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>>   VS-)
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> I think so.  It always makes me think of Christmas; wonder if they could adopt the moniker "Weinachtspartei."
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> LH
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>> On 5/15/2012 2:16 PM, Laurence Horn wrote:
>>> I remember reading stories awhile back mentioning a "red-green alliance" in electoral politics, alluding to a (perhaps temporary) coalition between socialist/leftist red types and environmentalist green types, maybe in Germany or somewhere else in Western Europe.
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>>> LH
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