German Greens receive more large donations than Angela Merkel’s party
by Philip Oltermann in Berlin from World news | The Guardian on (#5P8HW)
Environmental party given highest one-off sum in its history by Dutch tech entrepreneur
Germany's Greens have so far received more large donations ahead of this September's federal elections than the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) of outgoing chancellor Angela Merkel, after a Dutch tech entrepreneur gave the German environmental party the highest one-off sum of cash in its history.
Steven Schuurman, co-founder of software company Elastic, whose net worth is listed by Forbes magazine as 2bn US dollars (1.45bn), on Tuesday transferred the German Green party a donation of 1.25m euros (1m).
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