Actually the agreed phase out of nuclear power in Germany is a guaratee for decades of continued usage. Now the Greens have gone a step further by even opposing protests again nuclear waste transports. Today's function of the German Green party can only be seen in containing any protest in society.
As in the case of the bombing of Yugoslavia the Green party is does not do it below the highest principles: Green party chairman Fritz Kuhn called the transports 'necdessary because of morality and international law.' cf: http://de.news.yahoo.com/010122/71/1ajye.html
The (German) text of Greens's Parteirat decision referenced belowed is here: http://www.gruene.de/archiv/pm/2001/01/PM01_005.htm
Johannes
>From todays's Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung ( www.faz.com )
Green Leaders Accept Nuclear Waste Transports
F.A.Z. BERLIN. The party leadership of Alliance 90/The Greens approved on Monday a resolution that will allow the party's national organization, the junior partner in Germany's coalition government, to go along with a resumption of "essential" Castor transports of nuclear waste. Leading Greens, anticipating internal party critics, said the compromise was appropriate since the government had agreed to phase out nuclear power.
The transports have often required massive police escorts to stop protesters, and the outgoing party coleader, Renate Künast, the new German minister of consumer affairs and agriculture, said it "was a given" that there would be future protests. But Germany has "a moral and legal duty" to allow the transports in order to take back waste material from German plants that has been stored at a French reprocessing facility, she said.