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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…

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…