Social Democrat Dagmar Metzger from Darmstadt, member of the Hessian State Parliament, is opposed to a red-red-green coalition and said yesterday she is not going to vote for Andrea Ypsilanti to become State Governor. That means the red-red-green dreams are over. And I am proud to say the resistance came from Darmstadt, my birth town!
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Hesse, the German state I live in, might soon be governed by a red-green minority government tolerated by the Left:
Germany’s Social Democrats said on Tuesday they will try to form a minority government in the western state of Hesse with the help of the Left Party, completing a controversial U-turn. The SPD had insisted it [...]
“Republic of fear” (WSJ, March 3, 2008) is the title of an article by Malte Lehming. Anybody wanting to know anything about the political situation in Germany has to read it. It is a brilliant analysis. Read the beginning here:
Your heart rate sinks, muscles stiffen, you lose control of bodily functions: You’re frozen with fear. [...]
In former DDR (= GDR) the official language was to call the Wall an “anti-fascist protective shield”. I found that hilarious. For if at all it was an “anti-democratic protective shield”.
So I really loved this cartoon by Burkhard Fritsche in “Welt am Sonntag”, Feb 24, 2008 about Christel Wegner. I wrote about her in [...]
Sarcastic, bitter and true: A cartoon in Die WELT, Feb 12, 2008, page 8. It shows from left to right: A Military (maybe former NATO General Naumann?), German Defense Minister Jung, former Defense Minister Struck and Foreign Minister Steinmeier.
To understand the cartoon one has to know that former Defense Minister Struck back in 2002 stated [...]
Ernst Cramer, born in 1913, is Chairman of the Board of the Axel Springer Foundation. In 1939 he managed to escape from Germany to the United States after an internment at the Buchenwald Camp. After his return to Germany he served as deputy editor in chief of the daily “Die Welt” from 1958 on and [...]