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Tuesday, May 15th, 2012
Angela Merkel met the newly appointed French President Hollande in Berlin this evening.
It was more a getting-to-know each other type of meeting and an opportunity to again clear the air, or at least clean the air of the former French President, Sarkozy.
President Hollande’s trip began in rather inauspicious circumstances when the President’s plane was apparently hit by lightning climbing out of Paris [...] Continue Reading…
Tags: Chancellor Merkel goes out on a political limb, Francois Hollande, French Elections - Chancellor Merkel, merkel-to-support-sarkozys-re-election, Peer Steinbrück, Piraten Partie, politics makes strange bedfellows, robin hood tax sarkozy, SPD win big in German regional elections in North Rhine-Westphalia, Tobin tax, upstart Piraten Partie, upstart Piraten Partie also do well – CDU loses big-time but Merkel’s national position as Chancellor unaffected, Wolfgang Schäuble
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Wednesday, May 9th, 2012
Berlin ist ja für schnelle Veränderung bekannt. Sehr große Veränderungen werden längerfristig geplant, manchmal ist die einberechnete Zeit jedoch zu kurz. Wie bei der Geschichte der Berliner Flughäfen. Berlin mit seinen Ursprünglich vier Flughäfen war schon immer Dreh- und Angelpunkt für den Luftverkehr.
Die Teilung Deutschlands zwang die Berliner zum umdenken. Da Westberlin eine vergleichsweise kleine Fläche war, mussten die vorhandenen Flugplätze gut [...] Continue Reading…
Tags: brand, Fluggesellschaften, Flughafen, Katastrophenschutz, Luftbrücke, Matthias, Platzeck, Probleme, Raves, Regierung, Regierungsterminal, Westberlin
Posted in Airlines, Architecture Berlin, Berlin, Economy Berlin, Economy EU, Economy Germany, Guides, Tour Guide, Transportation | 1 Comment »
Sunday, April 22nd, 2012
The Dutch PM Mark Rutte, leader of the Liberal VVD Party has indicated that because of failed budget negotiations earlier today that early elections are very likely. The Dutch Liberals are a sister party of the German FDP.
Reason for this sudden collapse of the cabinet is the populist right-wing hatemonger Geert Wilders. He had black-mailed his former coalition partners in the past [...] Continue Reading…
Tags: 'albino-ostrich-like' Wilders, Breivik admires Wilders, Diederik Samsom, dutch government almost falls, dutch government falls, Dutch pulblic relieved, Emile Roemer, extremely odius CDA member Verhagen, hatemonger wilders, Hatemonger Wilders ends opportunist alliance with Dutch Liberals and Conservatives, lame and supine coalition government of Holland, rascist Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, Socialist Party, wilders brings down dutch coalition government, Wilders causes Dutch government collapse, Wilders Dutch Goebbels, wilders dutch government falls, Wilders loves Netanyahu, xenophobe wilders
Posted in Berlin, Economy EU, Politics EU, Politics Germany | 2 Comments »
Saturday, March 31st, 2012
This Ceramic ‘Conehead’ statuette was found by blog reader Oleg on the corner of Boxhagener Strasse & Wühlischstraße near Ostkreuz – it is in neighbourhood or Bezirk of Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg.
‘Coneheads’ are an alien family, natives of the planet Remulak, who found themselves stranded on Earth and when questioned by Earthlings where they are from they inevitably reply that they are “from France”. Their [...] Continue Reading…
Tags: Boxhagener Strasse & Wühlischstraße, Canadian actor and comedian Dan Aykroyd, Ceramic CONEHEAD statuette, Ceramic CONEHEAD statuette - Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg, Conehead monument Berlin, Conehead visit Berlin, Coneheads active in Berlin, Connie Conehead visits Berlin, Conny Conehead in Berlin, funny fotos in Berlin, funny pictures from berlin, Remulak
Posted in Berlin Funny Fotos, Economy Berlin, Economy EU, Economy Germany, Events, Graffiti, Politics EU | No Comments »
Thursday, March 22nd, 2012
Woman on stilts in front of Berlin Reichstag – foto -http://owlfliesnorth.tumblr.com/
Kiwi Blog reader – New Zealander Ms Carmel Blanchard sent us this funny foto of ……….yes what can one say other than that we have a woman/man on stilts – infront of the Berliner Dome in Berlin Mitte. [Schloßplatz, Mitte 10178 Berlin,[
She sent this picture on our www.ota-berlin.de blog website in [...] Continue Reading…
Tags: anti-wall street protests, funny fotos in Berlin, funny pictures from berlin, kiwis in Berlin, new zealanders in Berlin
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Sunday, February 19th, 2012
The former home country of megalomania and kitsch has undergone a transition over the recent years that is a bit of a jaw-dropping affair, to say the least. The Krauts have gone from a nation of grumpy white-socked misanthropes with a world-domineering streak and ‘Lebensraum’-claiming towels to a people of cool and charisma.
Germany has turned into the promised land. How did that [...] Continue Reading…
Tags: 2006 World Cup, Best of Germany, bohemian, commerce, Economy, Fritz, germany, hip Berlin, kitsch, Krauts, megalomania, pazifist, poor but sexy, Rosa-Luxemburg Straße, Woodstock
Posted in Articles by Jörn Meyer, Berlin, Berlin Culture, Berlin General, Berlin Tourist Attractions, Culture, Economy, Economy Berlin, Economy EU, Economy Germany, Football Europe, German Culture, History, History Berlin, History Germany, Local Berlin, Politics Berlin, Politics EU, Politics Germany, Shopping, Shopping in Berlin Mitte | No Comments »
Monday, January 30th, 2012
Political forces can sometimes bring and even force together people who might otherwise have very little in common - this could be the case with the German Chancellor Merkel and the French President Sarkozy.
” Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows” is how William Shakespeare put it with a man who has been shipwrecked and finds himself seeking shelter beside a sleeping [...] Continue Reading…
Tags: Chancellor Merkel goes out on a political limb, Francois Hollande, French Elections - Chancellor Merkel, Merkel to support Sarkozy’s re-election, politics makes strange bedfellows, robin hood tax sarkozy, Tobin tax
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Saturday, January 21st, 2012
German Foreign Minister Westerwelle has gone on the diplomatic offensive and debunked US media caricature of Europe and Germany as short-sighted and untrue. Last Friday he defended the EU’s and Germany’s response to the Euro-zone debt crisis management on a visit in the US and exposed the falseness of the caricature of Europe that prevails in US politics.
Speaking to a Washington so-called [...] Continue Reading…
Tags: euro vs. dollar, fdp, guido westerwelle, westerwelle corrects US media image of Europe, Westerwelle criticizes US media, Westerwelle US media perceptions
Posted in Articles by Emil Hoogensteyn, Berlin, Economy, Economy EU, News, Politics Berlin, Politics EU, Politics Germany | No Comments »
Tuesday, January 3rd, 2012
Euro crisis and Economic Debt Crisis Worldwide will dominate for Berliners
On January 1st exactly 10 years ago in 2002, the Euro was introduced as a common currency in 12 European countries and a decade later, the jury is still out on whether it will be considered a success or a failure – this year will be a definitive one for the [...] Continue Reading…
Tags: 2012 forecasts in Berlin, awkward and stupid, Berlin in 2012, but will capitalism survive the crisis, Cern Physics Libratory, English, london olympics web site stupid, london olympics website typically English - backward, obama re-elected hopefully, What to expect in 2012 Berlin
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Saturday, December 31st, 2011
Chancellor Angela Merkel has been voted ‘OTA-Berlin Constituency Blog’ personage of the year 2011 by the editorial staff.
Ms Merkel knows something about the word ‘ unity’ coming from the formerly divided nation of Germany and now as the de-facto leader of the Euro-zone countries she is actively keeping the various states of Europe together on the correct path in overcoming its current [...] Continue Reading…
Tags: Barbie doll after Merkel, cheat of the year zu Guttenberg, lecherous reprobate septuagenarian Berlusconi, loser of the year zu Guttenberg, Merkel Barbie doll, Merkel voted Personage of the Year, OTA-Berlin Constituency Blog Personage of the Year 2011, Person of the Year 2011
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Tuesday, December 13th, 2011
EURO sign outside Frankfurt ECB office – foto from Wikipedia by Lars Aronsson
British PM Cameron stood completely alone last Friday by refusing to agree to a historic European fiscal pact to save the Euro, the repercussions of which are just starting to be assessed on both sides of the English Channel.
The Labour party leader Miliband accused Cameron of causing [...] Continue Reading…
Tags: BAnk of England printing money blindly., BAnk of England quantitative easing, Britain’s future in the European Union difficult, British PM ‘fell into a French trap’, Labour party leader Miliband, UK's role in EU could become 'untenable'
Posted in Articles by W van Coeveren, Economy EU, Politics EU, Politics Germany | No Comments »
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