Daniel Cohn-Bendit (born 1946) only occupied center stage in French politics for a few weeks in 1968. Still, more than anyone else, Cohn-Bendit came to personify the new left that swept Western Europe and North America in the late 1960s and early...

Daniel Cohn-Bendit Born April 4, 1945 Montauban, Midi-Pyrenees, France Social reformer and Green Party representative in the European Parliament Daniel Cohn-Bendit has worked for more than three decades to create a utopia, or ideal society, in Europe....

Daniel Cohn-Bendit at meeting of The Greens (France) at Paris in May...

Fiery and flamboyant politician Daniel Cohn-Bendit has returned to France's political scene after 30 years of exile in Germany. Cohn-Bendit, who was expelled by then-Pres Charles De Gaulle for his role in the May 1968 student riots, is leading the Green Party into the...

THE tousled head beams down from a huge blow-up of a recent French magazine cover bearing the provocative caption "L'emmerdeur"-roughly speaking, "the bloody nuisance" or "pain in the neck". It is a description that Daniel Cohn-Bendit, one-time student anarchist turned leader of the...

Environmentalists and France's leftist opposition on Thursday criticized a preliminary deal to provide civilian nuclear technology to Libya, with some claiming France used it as a bargaining chip to help free a group of medics held by Libya.President Nicolas Sarkozy announced the deal, a first...

A new far-right faction in the European Parliament will provide a platform for the movement to push some of its most important goals: limiting immigration and resisting the EU's drive for closer integration.The formation of the Identity, Sovereignty and Tradition group, announced last week, brings...