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rot-grün

rot-grün

German

Alternative forms

  • rotgrün

Adjective

rot-grün (not comparable)

  1. (politics, Germany) pertaining to a coalition between the SPD (a large social democratic party in Germany) and Bündnis 90/Die Grünen (the largest environmental party in Germany) (literally: red-green, derived from the colors representing these parties)
    • 2010, Der Spiegel, issue 32/2010, page 17:
      Das rot-grüne Gesetz sieht vor, dass bis 2022 alle Atomkraftwerke vom Netz gehen.
      The "red-green" law provides that all nuclear power pants are taken off the grid until 2022.

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