German biotech sees Red-Green

Germany's bioindustrialists are predicting that their revolution will stay on course despite the establishment of a Red-Green coalition - comprised of the left-of-center Social Democrats (SPD) and the ecologist Greens Party - as a result of last week's general election.

The SPD, which attracted 40.9 percent of the votes and got 298 seats in the 669-seat Bundestag, and the Greens Party, which got 6.7 percent of the votes resulting in 47 seats, last Friday started discussions to hammer out the conditions governing partnership...