Mayor Klaus Wowereit of Berlin has sat survived a vote of no confidence in the House of Representatives of the city state.
The opposition had the motion filed against him, because they find the Wowereit complicit to the debacle surrounding the new international airport. BBI.
A majority of 85 local municipat lawmakers rejected the non-confidence motion – supported by the Greens, Die Linke, and the [...] Continue Reading…
The opinions expressed in the following blog article by our blog contributors and subsequent comments are not necessarily those of OTA-Berlin but specifically of the contributor – in this case Mr Emil Hoogensteyn.
OTA-Berlin Constituency Blog’ is part of OTA-Berlin ‘……the intelligent Apartment-Alternative to Hotels in Berlin’.The Blog provides OTA-Berlin guests a quick overview of the cultural, sports, social and other related activities [...] Continue Reading…
The opinions expressed by our blog contributors are not necessarily those of OTA-Berlin but specifically of the contributor – in this case Mr Emil Hoogensteyn.
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His chances are not considered high – at 16/1 if one can believe the UK Guardian -and one tends more and more NOT to believe them.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/oct/12/nobel-peace-prize-winner-to-be-revealed
It would be a very courageous move on the part of the Norwegians [...] Continue Reading…
The opinions expressed by our blog contributors are not necessarily those of OTA-Berlin but specifically of the contributor – in this case Mr Emil Hoogensteyn.
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We can be and indeed are pleasantly surprised, that the Pirate Party Bayern has officially taken the position that the most famous head of whistleblower platform WikiLeaks, the Australian national Julian Assange, has been granted asylum in Ecuador -albeit temporarily [...] Continue Reading…
Die Piratenpartei ist eine junge Partei mit dem Ziel Politik positiv zu verändern.
Die erste Piratenpartei gab es in Schweden seit 2006. Der Name kommt über die Anti-Urheberrechts-Organisation Piratbyran die kurz vorher das BitTorrent Programm “The Pirate Bay” gegründet hatte. Die Piratenpartei wählte diesen Namen bewusst, um die aktuelle politische Klasse ein wenig zu provozieren.
Nach der Gründung weiterer Landesparteien in vielen Ländern [...] Continue Reading…
The Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski has said that a boycott of the Euro 2012 football championships – which start in Warsaw in a months’ time – would be counter-productive and are ill-advised. He said the so-called reasons being giving by various people are spurious, inappropriate and do not correspond to the real situation in the Ukraine.
Ukraine is co-hosting the June 8-July 1 [...] Continue Reading…
As they did last year, in waves of demonstrations, many thousands of protestors and workers across Europe went onto the streets against government spending cuts, unemployment and increasing burdens for low wage earners to pay for the folly and economic and political mismanagement of the very few very rich.
Many people in Europe will be protesting unemployment and at the same time protesting [...] Continue Reading…
Marx + Engels Founders of Modern Socialism
Happy May Day 2012 !
‘May Day’ is a world-wide celebration of the social and economic achievements and progress of the workers and Labour movement – it is also refered to as ‘International Workers’ Day’, or ‘Labour Day’ and is the primary Communist and Socialist celebration now encompassing all manner of left or anti-capitalist groupings.
Many people also [...] Continue Reading…
Dark clouds hang over Reichstag - Uli Klose - berlinprophoto.de
“Der Maulkorb gehört nicht ins Parlament” – “Muzzles have no place in parliament” says a Berlin newspaper headline and it represents the general mood both in the Partliment and on the street. http://www.tagesspiegel.de/meinung/rederecht-im-bundestag-der-maulkorb-gehoert-nicht-ins-parlament/6516384.html
As Germany’s parliament, the German Bundestag stands at the centre of the country’s political life and is elected by the German people to function [...] Continue Reading…
Wer kennt es nicht, das bunte Treiben im Mauerpark mit der weltberühmten Karaoke-Show des Iren Joe, dem quirligen Flohmarkt, den off-road Straßenmusikanten. Und wer wollte dies nicht erhalten, zumal an einem Ort, wo Geschichte (nicht nur mit Sprühdosen) geschrieben wurde? Der Mauerpark verbindet den ehemals westlichen Wedding mit dem einst östlichen Prenzlauer Berg und so in mehrer Hinsicht zwei unterschiedliche Welten, in [...] Continue Reading…
Pastor Gauck -foto Wikipedia – source J. Patrick FischerAs was expected a majority of the German Bundestag/Parliament , the judiciary and the state legislatures elected former DDR activist pastor Joachim Gauck as Germany`s new German Bundespräsident.
Gauck, who enjoyed the backing of the major large parties, received 991 of the 1,232 ballots cast and the Linke`s Partei candidate Beate Klarsfeld got a respectful [...] Continue Reading…
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