Bricmont J., Kupiainen A. Renormalization Group and the Ginzburg-Landau equation (33K, latex) ABSTRACT. We use Renormalization Group methods to prove detailed long time asymptotics for the solutions of the complex Ginzburg-Landau equations with initial data approaching, as $x\rightarrow\pm\infty$, different spiralling stationary solutions. A universal pattern is formed, depending only on this asymptotics at spatial infinity.