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 | | The Italian green party is responsible for the emergence of a cultural awareness and a sense of defending the country's natural heritage, leading, for example, protests against corrupt practices in urban construction. |
 | | But the European greens "became institutionalised" and their political culture increasingly resembles that of the rest of the parties, "losing their sense of innovation and struggle and their radical edge," Prospero said. |
 | | Die Gruenen, like the most conservative German parties, argues that the welfare state needs to undergo radical reform to survive, and the greens "are the leading defender of the partial privatisation of the pension system and of the reduction of long-term social services for the unemployed," Rabbitz said. |
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