Handelsblatt reports that Joschka Fischer, one of the Greens’ two co-leaders and the Red-Green government’s foreign minister and deputy chancellor, has announced his resignation from both his party and state offices. He will, however, take up his seat in the Bundestag. Apparently he thinks the Greens need “a new formation” (eine Neuaufstellung) and that “clarity [...]
Don’t blame me, blame Alex for this, since he’s the one who started me thinking about all those other issues associated with the German elections - apart that is from the economic ones. Like this in today’s FT:
“It must have seemed like a good idea at the time. ….Last week, she (Angela Merkel) named Heinrich [...]
Russia is offering to build up to six new nuclear reactors for Iran. I think that if the loss of global consensus attendant on the Iraq war has a price, a ‘less cordinated world’ will be one part of it. I think there is a serious danger of all this getting out of [...]
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