No that video perfectly reflects her personality. She is the only one who is still there from the G8 summit in Heiligendamm and she is nowhere as presumptous as other leaders. "Your family and your life is why Im doing this job, not cause I fancy traveling around the world fixing crisis after crisis."
Press is speculating after SH got a Jamaika coalition that this could be the model for the election in September http://www.bild.de/bild-plus/politi...ete-52190620,view=conversionToLogin.bild.html
Given the US's perceived reduced engagement with NATO/EU and Russia's overt activities across Europe, I'd think that 2% shouldn't be a huge political liability no?
Yes but you to have factor in a, from whom this is coming from and b, the sense is not quite clear when there is nobody to defend against. Schulz makes Angie take side with Trump by this move just when she tried to distance herself
879801023568781313 is not a valid tweet id Good read. Follow Jeremy Cliffe from the economist if you want an educated English speaking view on the upcoming election
I was about to post that. Here is the article. http://www.economist.com/blogs/kaffeeklatsch/2017/06/merkelology-101?fsrc=scn/tw/te/bl/ed/
HMM, SPD..but I forgot to set the "how important is this to you"...I'll update shortly EDIT: No change...
I hear that all the Muslim MPs in the Bundestag (parliament) voted in favor of gay marriage. Good for them, even if some* may oppose it for religious reasons, as minorities they did well by supporting other minority rights. *Perhaps none of them oppose it.
The Real Colluder With Russia Isn't Trump -- It's Germany https://www.forbes.com/sites/paulro...russia-isnt-trump-its-germany/2/#13ff76626c94
Anyone else see the irony of the US administration opposing a gas pipeline, and the extent they will go to stop it?
Not really. The reason we oppose the gas pipelines is that the chief beneficiary will be Putin's Russia. And it will make the Western Europeans more dependent on Russian energy than you are now. In case Russia moves against the Baltic States or Poland (NATO and EU members all), will Germany and France come to their aid, or worry it will be a long cold winter?
I am not German but figure I understand the issues well enough. I got 68% FDP (which sounds about right).
Most living outside G only see the party platform. To some extent for liberals in the US the FDP would always be the go to party. They cant know the personel or recent event in terms of policying of course.
Except in the US I am considered either a conservative or a libertarian not a liberal. I personally consider myself a conservative libertarian meaning that I think lots of things should be legal -- like drugs or same sex marriage -- I do not approve of them for myself. And get off my lawn As for personnel, that is usually a country specific thing. On a personnel level I find Merkel the only political leader world wide I can say I admire since forever pretty much. According to the US press the Russians are under all our beds right now. It is somewhat ironic as a few months ago, the US press was in an uproar because the thought was that Trump was going to pull us out of NATO. And I can get Schulz's reasoning -- why spend money on defense when your formally rich Uncle Sam will do it for you. (To go off topic a little, as I have said elsewhere, Europe will not take its defense seriously until we (the US) make it clear we are no longer going to defend you). We are taught in school that "US isolationism" was a primary cause of WWII and US presidents, no matter what they say during the campaign, do not want to be called isolationist or accused of appeasement. In the 1970s, President Carter once walked in Prague in the rain instead of using an umbrella because he was afraid the press would juxtapose pictures of him with Chamberlain in Prague with an umbrella.