Gasoline Prices: Party and Angela Merkel

gasoline prices: With Angela Merkel's coalition hanging by a thread, the possibility of a Green chancellor is a hot topic in Berlin, according to The Japan Times. The party overtook her Christian Democrat-led bloc in polls this month. Today, the party has a legitimate shot at governing Europe's largest economy. Robert Habeck, the stubble-cheeked Green co-chairman, would defeat Merkel's heir apparent in a contest to lead Germany. ; That raises the question of how the nation would be run by a party that in 1998 proposed tripling gasoline prices and, in 2013, suggested banning meat in canteens every Thursday. The Greens are still in part a prohibition party that wants to use strict regulation to steer the economy, said Carsten Brzeski, chief economist at ING Germany. Even though the Greens now are a mainstream party for urban professionals, many investors still get the jitters. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.