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Merkel meets Hollande in Berlin this evening – On the weekend SPD win big in German regional elections in North Rhine-Westphalia – upstart Piraten Partie also do well – CDU loses big-time but Merkel’s national position as Chancellor unaffected- by OTA-Berlin Constituency blog contributor Emil Hoogensteyn

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…

Berliner Flughäfen – Geschichte und Gegenwart – Verzögerung auf Berlin Brandenburg International

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…

Berlin funny fotos # 5- Glossy Ceramic CONEHEAD statuette – Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg near Ostkreuz

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…

Berlin funny fotos # 4- woman/man on stilts – infront of the Berliner Dome/ Schloßplatz in Berlin Mitte

Thursday, March 22nd, 2012
Woman on stilts in front of Berlin Reichstag - foto -http://owlfliesnorth.tumblr.com/

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…

Cool Germania – A very brief history of the country’s and capital’s transition to hip – by OTA-Berlin Constituency Blog contributor Mr Jörn Meyer

Sunday, February 19th, 2012
Brandenburg Gate - OTA Berlin

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…

French Elections – ‘Politics Makes Strange Bedfellows’: Chancellor Merkel to go out on a political limb & out of her way to support Sarkozy’s re-election – by OTA-Berlin Constituency blog contributor Emil Hoogensteyn

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…

Berlin in 2012 – What we can expect and look forward to in the New Year – by contributor Mr Emil Hoogensteyn

Tuesday, January 3rd, 2012
EURO sign outside Frankfurt ECB office – foto from Wikipedia by Lars Aronsson

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…

OTA-Berlin Constituency Blog ‘Personage of the Year 2011′ – Angela Merkel & ‘Loser of the year’ has to be K-T zu Guttenberg – by Emil Hoogensteyn

Saturday, December 31st, 2011
Angela Merkel -

 

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…

Wolfgang Schäuble deservedly wins 2012 Charlemagne Prize – by W van Coeveren

Sunday, December 11th, 2011
Wolfgang Schaeuble

The German Finance Minister, Wolfgang Schäuble has been named the recipient of the 2012 Charlemagne Prize – it is an award honoring individuals who have contributed to European unity -previous winners include the former head of the ECB chief, Jean-Claude Trichet, US President Bill Clinton and the German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

The jury for the 2012 Charlemagne Prize said the 69-year-old CDU Politian [...] Continue Reading…

EU shows united resolve – UK shows self-serving and narrow nationalism – Cameron isolates UK and takes side of Anglo/American Casino Bankers -comment by OTA-Berlin Constituency Blog contributor Mr Emil Hoogensteyn

Friday, December 9th, 2011
angela merkel OTA Berlin

Because of pressure from  ‘The City of London’  banking speculators towards Conservative leader Cameron, the UK is facing a self-imposed isolation in Europe

David Cameron vetoed a proposed amendment of the Lisbon treaty, which forced the other European Union members to bypass the UK and agreed amongst themselves -an unofficial agreement between the governments  – thus just outside of the official architecture of the EU.

Cameron has [...] Continue Reading…

The Irish PM or ‘TAOISEACH’ Enda Kenny met Chancellor Angela Merkel yesterday in Berlin – Loser Cameron due tomorrow – comment by OTA-Berlin Constituency Blog contributor Mr Emil Hoogensteyn

Thursday, November 17th, 2011
merkel

The global capitalist debt crisis has created a veritable tectonic shift in European Union the EU – financially and politically. However some are indeed asking is this ‘tectonic shift’  also turning into a ‘Teutonic shift’.

These changes, would normally take decades to come about however it seems to have happened this time in just 4 years.

The answer in German is the popular word [...] Continue Reading…

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