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Both entered politics after the fall of the Berlin Wall (Mr Platzeck as a Green minister in East Germany's last communist government, Ms Merkel as a spokesperson for the first democratic one).
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Other avant-garde gardening clubs operate in cities like Paris, Berlin, Tokyo and New York, where the Green Guerrillas, one of the first guerrilla groups, was founded by artist Liz Christy in 1973.
CNN: Guerrilla gardeners green their city on secret moonlit missions
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West Germany's Green movement was sparked partly by irritation with the allied military presence in Berlin, which, it was argued, induced an atmosphere of paranoia in the city.
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The pro-bailout Green Party will take the helm, causing Merkel to lose those allies in Berlin.
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Keen to show that the CSU still matters in Berlin, Mr Seehofer demanded tax cuts that Ms Merkel was reluctant to concede and torpedoed a reform of green regulations that she had championed when she was environment minister.
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