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…
It’s now less than a week until the elections for the Berlin parliament and I still have not made up my mind, who should get my vote. I have already tried most of the more established parties but never quite got what I wished for. So it may be a good opportunity too look a little bit [...] Continue Reading…
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Berlin/Cape Town 30-06-2010
Talis-woman Chancellor Angela Merkel to support German national team in crucial World Cup fixture against Argentina in South Africa this coming Saturday
German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who shares an equal weakness for both opera and football [ as some other notable personages] will travel to South Africa to support the German national team in their quarter-final encounter with Argentina – a must [...] Continue Reading…
“I like Angela Merkel, but I don’t much like the company she keeps -her Bayern friends!” many people in Berlin and in the rest of Germany are often fond of saying – a direct reference to her CDU party based in Munich. One perfect example is the 66 yr old fellow Christian Democrat, Erika Steinbach who finds herself at the centre of a [...] Continue Reading…
A “reality-sandwich” was delivered to the German people earlier today by the leader of their government Angela Merkel. This after the last couple of days of euphoric international attention and celebration to commemorate the reunification of the two Germanys, 20 years ago. She did not mince her words when she addressed the German Parliament and gave a rather pessimistic review of the [...] Continue Reading…
Yesterday German Chancellor Angela Merkel became only the second German leader in history to give a speech to both houses of the U.S. Congress. One of the many issues she avoided raising is her new coalition government’s controversial commitment to remove all U.S. nuclear weapons from German soil within the next few years
Rough estimates put around 20 U.S. B-61 nuclear-type bombs being [...] Continue Reading…
Three weeks of protracted negotiations between the CDU conservative party of the German Chancellor Angela Merkel and the liberal Free Democrats ended today with all the parties signing a coalition deal emphasizing tax cuts.
The moderate liberal-conservative coalition of Christian Democrats and Free Democrats: the very model of a modern centrist democracy, agreed on €24bn of tax cuts in an attempt to stimulate [...] Continue Reading…
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