Still the same with a new name? Bündnis 90/Die Grünen after the fusion

Abstract

More than two years after German unification, the Greens finally created a joint party organisation with their ally in the east, Bündnis 90. This article analyses the most important junctures on the path towards the new party, Bündnis 90/Die Grünen, and defines its most important organisational, ideological and social characteristics. The Achilles heel of the new party, which is more moderate than the Greens of the 1980s, remains their lack of a stable electoral base.