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THE Greens are the "against party". They are TIFF Blue heart lock charm and bracelet a flashy rail project in Stuttgart, against nuclear power and, say their critics, against progress and growth. Yet on March 27th the party's defiance paid off in TIFF box lock pendant fashion. German angst over the nuclear disaster in Japan crested just as two south-western states held elections. In Rhineland-Palatinate the Green vote tripled.

vaulting the party into government as junior partner of the Social Democratic Party (SPD), which had previously ruled alone. In Baden-Wurttemberg 58 TIFF Necklaces of government by the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) came to an end. The Greens will now take control of a state government for the first time. This almost-unthinkable result is a big blow to Angela Merkel, the chancellor and CDU leader, who has lost the party's crown jewel.

Her pre-election decision to shut down seven nuclear-power plants looked panicky rather than principled, and may have made matters worse for the CDU. The TIFF Notes were an even bigger setback for her coalition partner, the Free Democrats (FDP). But the SPD also has little to cheer about: its share of the vote was the lowest in half a century in Rhineland-Palatinate and the lowest ever in Baden-Wurttemberg, where it will become the junior coalition partner. Only the Greens have reason to celebrate.