Germany’s Greens and Deutschland AG cross-pollinate

to elect their chancellor directly they would, a new poll implies, vote for Robert Habeck, the economy minister in Olaf Scholz’s coalition government. Mr Habeck and Annalena Baerbock, the foreign minister, who are both from the Greens, regularly top such surveys. The next chancellor could well be a Green.Ten years ago this would have been a horror scenario for German business. They saw the Greens as a (prohibition party) whose Birkenstock-wearing leaders lived in an unrealistic Green Utopia with no internal-combustion engines or short-haul flights. s didn’t talk to the party—and the party ignored their concerns.