Drew Hutton from the Australian Greens party told a media confererence Sunday that it was important to realize that New Caledonia had no environmental protection laws of its own, nor was the environment there covered by French laws.
The two major parties which are entirely unambiguous in their opposition to HS2 are the Greens and the UK Independence Party: UKIP, currently riding high in the polls, are fielding more candidates in Staffordshire than the Liberal Democrats while the Greens are fielding more than the Lib Dems in Warwickshire and Worcestershire.
We know why too: because various of the greens (and Greens, members of the political party) think that landfilling trash is a very bad idea.
Others, including the Scottish Greens and the Scottish Socialist Party, have already expressed their wish for a Scottish replacement for sterling.
The ultimate test of how serious a party the Greens have become will be how soon they are prepared to try once again to work with the CDU, in a state or even, after 2013, at the federal level.
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The Social Democrats' Alfred Gusenbauer is tipped to lead a new coalition, either with the People's Party or the Greens.
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But the decision looks set to put added strain on Schroeder's coalition with the pacifist-leaning Greens party, several prominent members of which have called for a halt to the U.S. bombing raids on Afghanistan.
Because, under Germany's system of proportional representation, the Greens got 47 parliamentary seats, but under France's majority-voting system its Greens, the main environmental party, got a mere half-dozen.
Two opposition parties - the Social Democrats and the Greens - abstained, while the Left Party voted against.
The Greens want all-party talks on Monday to rush the bill through as soon as possible.
In Maine, several parties (Libertarians, Greens and the Reform Party) have won over 5% of the vote in various local elections.
With power also comes scrutiny, and Labor and the Liberals claim that the Greens are a fringe party with some wacky ideas.
Mr Lipponen's thoughts now turn to the new balance of power in a coalition still likely to include the Greens, the ex-communists and a party of ethnic Swedes, as well as the conservatives, who vigorously argue for a fifth nuclear power station for Finland.
The CDU was rattled after state elections last month, in which the CDU and SPD lost ground to the smaller parties - the Left Party, the FDP and the Greens - and there were calls for Angela Merkel to adopt more aggressive tactics Mr Steinmeier.
That's Labour, the Conservatives, the Liberal Democrats, the UK Independence Party, the SNP, the Greens, Plaid Cymru and Sinn Fein.
The only other pro-independence party at Holyrood is the Greens - and they only have two MSPs - meaning the majority needed to pass a referendum bill is not there, at present anyway.
Given the kind of candidates the SPD and Greens have put on their party lists and the kinds they haven't both parties will be much more left-wing in the next parliament.
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The Greens are the only Holyrood party, aside from the SNP, which backs Scottish independence.
In parliament, Clark will need to add support from both an anti-immigration party and the Greens, which doesn't bode well for Kiwi competitiveness.
The loss of votes to the Greens may encourage Democrats to extend the boundary of their party a little further to the left, which might put more Green issues into the centre of the political stage.
Ms Gillard, who leads the Labor Party, formed a government with the support of the Greens and independent legislators.
That could lead either to a three-party combination (the Greens and Free Democrats plus one of the big parties) or, more likely, to yet another unloved grand coalition.
Already, the number of parties in the Bundestag has risen from three to five, with the entry of the Greens in 1983 and, following unification in 1990, of the populist Left Party, heirs to East Germany's communists.
True, the question of same-sex marriage is starting to loom larger as an issue - the Labor Party national conference will debate it in December, and the emboldened Australian Greens are pressing for reform.
Meanwhile there are a number of local battles with smaller parties like the Greens and the anti-EU UK Independence Party fighting hard to capitalise on disillusion with the big three parties.
The four biggest political groups in the parliament will be the European People's Party, the Socialists, a new Liberal and centrist group and the Greens.
But fringe parties such as the right-wing British National Party and the anti-Europe UK Independence Party did not make much headway against the mainstream forces (though the Greens made history in getting their first MP elected).
Mr Hollande faces a rebellion on the left of his party, with about 20 deputies threatening to vote against, and from the Greens, who have formally decided to oppose the treaty.
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Mr Fitzgibbon said that the Greens were on course to beat the British National Party to a European seat in the North West, arguing that the BNP had been shedding local councillors in the region since 2004 while the Greens had gained.
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