DCB, having been expelled from France by De Gaulle in 1968, has spent almost all of his adult life, and political career, in Germany, with die Grünen.

Minor historical note: DCB spent only a decade of his political career as a Green in Germany. For the previous 16 years, he was part of the extra-parliamentarian opposition (the '68 movement if you want). Although he first ran for election in a precursor of the Greens in 1978, he joined the party only in 1984 (four years after it was established). A decade later, in 1994, he was elected MEP (then from Germany; he moved to France for his 1999 re-election).

_{*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.}