Fischer has no illusions about the impossibility of uniting all 28 EU member states behind the imperialist foreign policy of Germany. He therefore advocates that a “core” or “vanguard” take the initiative and win over other EU members with intergovernmental agreements. His policy amounts to the establishment of an imperial Europe under German leadership.

On its web site, the Greens still claim their policy is “stamped” by the fact that they “emerged from the peace movement.” In fact, there is no other German party that so bluntly pushes for war and military operations as the Greens. They speak for those layers of the middle class that acquired considerable wealth at the expense of the working class and link their destinies inseparably to the fortunes of German imperialism. Former street agitator Joschka Fischer, who now lives in a luxurious villa in Berlin‘s exclusive Dahlem district, is the living embodiment of this social type.