germany politics

An absolutely disgusting development: I'm not sure what personal rights can exist at all when a person can be prosecuted for insulting a politician. This is reminiscent of the DDR. What next for Germany, bringing back the Stasi? If Europe once again descends into fascism and/or...

The German national elections are coming up on Sunday, September 22, 2013. I am a newbie here, so I cannot post links yet, but once that hurdle has been overcome, I will be updating and enhancing the OP greatly. The first thing to understand about German elections is that it really is an...

German Elites Drawn to Anti-Euro Party, Spelling Trouble for Merkel Notice anything unusual about the picture of the party members? Another curiosity:

Merkel ally says Islam not part of Germany (Reuters) This guy said "Nein!" ... This guy said "Ja, tatsächlich!"

Today Günter Grass - famous German Nobel literate - published a poem callled "Was gesagt werden muss (What has to be said)" about the situation in the middle east, talking straight about the hypocrisy of blaming Iran for allegedly building a nuke while Israel has them stockpiled, unchecked for...

So a German group of hackers, the "Chaos Computer Club" has uncovered and decoded a Trojan wich apparently was used by the German Government for spying. Here's an article: http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-10-10/german-trojan-spyware-violates-constitution-hackers-say.html And in German...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-12125650 Given that the Cold War is over, i'd say that it was long overdue. Edit: Damn it! messed up the title, can a mod fix that?

Germany was doing okay for a while. I guess that's over. http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20101017/wl_afp/germanymuslimreligionimmigration

http://haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1136383.html i'm sorry...but when does the guilt end? haven't the Germans and other Europeans made enough reparations??? honestly... ...meanwhile, Israel continues to fund more settlements, demolish more Palestinian homes, strip Palestinians of their permanent...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8321967.stm Interesting.

Germany today had elections in three states (Länder): Saarland in the west, and Thuringia and Saxony in the east. With the federal elections scheduled for September 27, the results are interesting, as well as the choices in the formation of coalitions in those states. By now, you may think...

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/G20/article5993184.ece "Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, last night led the assault on the prime minister’s “global new deal” for a $2 trillion-plus fiscal stimulus to end the recession. I will not let anyone tell me that we must spend more...

http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/middleeast/news/article_1452152.php/German_peacekeepers_suggested_for_Gaza__Roundup__

JSIV asked me about the Party contributions in Germany in another thread: First of all - I'm no expert since German politics bores me to death. But yes, it's true that there are party contributions and there also were some scandals about that in the past. However - as far I know there aren't...

A while ago, the German Chancellor, Gerhardt Schröder, decided that a motion of no-confidence was to be filed in the parliament, the Bundesrat - against himself, no less. Now, this isn´t exactly the first time this is done, since the motion of no-confidence has, in the past, confirmed the...

Der Spiegel If this is right, the Karl Rove is a genius! To come up with and executes a plan so brilliant that he succeeds in discrediting the Pope and gets Der Spiegel to stick up for Bush against a leader of the German Left has got to be the one of the slickest political maneuvers of all...

Careful what you wish for, I guess. 'If you don't take a job as a prostitute, we can stop your benefits' Nice work if you can get it... :p