ABSTRACT
The Green Movement is puzzling people today, particularly when it takes the form of a Green Party, and most particularly in connection with the German party, by far the most important one, Die Grunen. They are said to be unpredictable and unable/unwilling to make any compromises with any other actors on the party-political scene; consequently they are not really in politics, they are only political. For a party launched in 1981, to break through the 5 per cent barrier (they made 5.6 per cent) already in the elections of March 1983 and then move on to 7, 8 and 9 per cent in subsequent elections, is already an achievement and leads to three obvious hypotheses about the future; the Greens will continue their comet-like career; they will find their natural level as a party below 10 per cent, but possibly still above 5 per cent; they will dwindle down to zero again which is where they belong.
