September 30, 2008

Governments and parties

Elections in Bavaria: Huh.

by Douglas Muir

Bavaria also had elections this weekend. (I posted about the campaign last week.)
Surprise: the Christian Social Union, which has ruled Bavaria without a break since forever, lost big. For the first time since 1962, they won’t have enough seats in Parliament to rule alone; they’ll have to take on a partner, most likely [...]

September 23, 2008

Political issues

Blonde on blonde: State elections in Bavaria

by Douglas Muir

So we have state elections here in Bavaria this week.
Yeah, I know. Bear with me, I’m going somewhere with this.
There are political signs here and there around our small town, but not as many as you’d expect. A surprisingly high number are for the nationalist, anti-immigration Republican Party. I say “surprisingly” because [...]

June 30, 2008

Economics and demography

European demographics in the NY Times

by Douglas Muir

Middle-long, middle-brow article on European demographics in this weeks NY Times Magazine. (If it asks you for a login, try bugmenot.)
If you’re already interested in this topic, 80% of it will be familiar stuff. There were a couple of interesting new points, though:

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September 11, 2007

Germany

Pay no attention to the huge machine tool behind..

by Alex Harrowell

This fascinating post, part of a series on Chinese manufacturing that’s been picked up by BoingBoing, seems to be missing one very significant point. Yes, it’s all very cool; precision-machining billets of cold steel into incredibly perfect moulds that will be used to injection-mould the Chumby, blasting off the rough edges with an electron gun, [...]

September 9, 2007

Germany

Review: The Wages of Destruction, Adam Tooze

by Alex Harrowell

Adam Tooze, who (it says here) is a senior lecturer at Jesus College, Cambridge, has a book out; The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy. It is getting some very good reviews, and this one will be no different. Tooze’s thesis is that the Nazi German economy was a more [...]

August 23, 2007

Religion

I wish I could translate laïcité into German…

by Mrs Tilton

My daughter’s school broke the law yesterday. I don’t mind too much, though, as the law in question is stupid and ought to be abolished.

Read more… or Read more right here… »

Under German law, religious [...]

July 7, 2007

Germany

It’s not easy being brown

by Mrs Tilton

The nazis marched today in Frankfurt. But it must have been rather frustrating for them. Their numbers were disappointing, they were relegated to the periphery of the city, and a thick wall of police ensured that they would not offend decent people’s eyes or ears.

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July 6, 2007

Germany

Gay creationists in government

by Mrs Tilton

Hessia’s education minister Karin Wolff has recently drawn attention for proposing that school biology lessons include the biblical creation story. Now she has drawn attention by outing herself as gay. All too many politicians pander to creationists; and some out themselves. But it’s pretty rare, I’d think, that the same politician does both.
Wolff will have [...]

July 1, 2007

Economics and demography

A (positive) German shock?

by Alex Harrowell

Eurozone Watch has two articles about Germany and Italy that offer support for an optimistic view of the European economy. For a start, Sebastian Dullein argues that a comparison of Germany today and the US after the early 90s recession shows that Germany might be on the brink of a productivity surge. Dullein argues that [...]

June 30, 2007

Germany

Funny, it doesn’t look like Kansas…

by Mrs Tilton

Though creationism does rear its ugly head from time to time in Europe, it is largely a fringe phenomenon. Unlike in America, even most religious Europeans accept evolution as an obvious fact, viewing the biblical creation stories (yes, there’s more than one) as, at most, poetic metaphor. So it’s easy for us over here to [...]

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