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German Greens pick two top candidates for EU election
By EUobserver
German Greens at a party conference in Leipzig over the weekend picked Ska Keller and Sven Giegold as their top candidates in May's European Parliament elections. The party's election manifesto was adopted and includes a CO2 emission tax on power and industrial plants across Europe, a tax on plastics, a single European corporation tax and a digital tax for tech giants such as Facebook and Google.