The participation in European elections was always not very exciting. People are very interested in European issues, but they don't see the person who is representing Europe.

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Green politician

From 1983 to 1985 Fischer was a member of the Bundestag for the Green party. His nickname Joschka is derived from the Hungarian Jóska diminutive of Joseph (Hungarian József).

Joseph Martin "Joschka" Fischer (born April 12 1948) is a German politician of the Alliance '90/The Greens. Fischer has been a leading figure in the West German Greens since the 1970s and according to opinion polls he was the most popular politician in Germany for most of the government's duration. Following the September 2005 election in which the Schröder government was defeated he left office on November 22 2005.