Bespoke translation by yours truly. Original article [A] by Danisch
It looks like the Greens are precisely what I think they are.
The Junge Freiheit: This is why the head of the Greens in Hesse is suddenly stepping down
That is corruption. And the connections between the Green Party and the USA are also a known item.
But the dispute is probably not based on him enriching himself, because this is commonplace for the Greens, but that it was pro-Israel - we know that the leftists are split into two camps, the pro-Israeli (and anti-German) and the ones critical of Israel (and anti-USA). This dispute is probably drawn along these lines.
There used to be a time in which you said that it's especially corrupt when you obtain private benefits.
Today, I guess you say that something can't be corrupt because it's not official business, but a private thing.
The Greens - "confirmed corrupt"?
It looks like the Greens are precisely what I think they are.
The Junge Freiheit: This is why the head of the Greens in Hesse is suddenly stepping down
[emphasis added by Danisch]The co-chairwoman of the Greens in Hesse, Kathrin Anders, has stepped down from office. On Monday, she announced her decision "effective immediately" in a notice to the party members. In the past weeks, she realized "that within our party, there exist structures that don't always conform to the principles of tolerance, openness, and respect", it says in the notice that is available to the Spiegel. "Decisions are often made in small circles, important information is being withheld deliberately."
The background is a dispute, which has been ongoing for several weeks now, on two foreign travels of the co-chairman of the Greens at the state level, Andreas Ewald. In this year's April - a few weeks after his election to the party head of the state level - upon being invited by a lobby organization for German-Israeli relationships, he flew to the country in the Middle East. In July, after being invited by the US consulate, he flew to the United States for three weeks. After the second travel, the Green politician made use of the host's offer to append two weeks of private holidays in the USA.
Several Greens in Hesse have voiced harsh criticism. They argue that travels with such expenses - at least 25,000 euros according to critics - must be declared as party donations insofar as they weren't financed privately by Ewald or from the party treasury.
That is corruption. And the connections between the Green Party and the USA are also a known item.
But the dispute is probably not based on him enriching himself, because this is commonplace for the Greens, but that it was pro-Israel - we know that the leftists are split into two camps, the pro-Israeli (and anti-German) and the ones critical of Israel (and anti-USA). This dispute is probably drawn along these lines.
A few days ago, they published a letter from the Greens in Hesse to the administration of the federal parliament. In it, it says that Ewald's travels have been approved by the state association, but they were not on official business. Accordingly, the Hesse Green chairman has neither submitted notes of expenses to his state associations, nor has he given interviews about the travel.
There used to be a time in which you said that it's especially corrupt when you obtain private benefits.
Today, I guess you say that something can't be corrupt because it's not official business, but a private thing.
