Merkel, Schaeuble and the Beginning of the End of a United Europe
So, the Eurozone and the Greeks have dodged a bullet…or have they? and should they have? Below is a slightly edited exchange between an American former expat retiree and his friend who has lived in...
View ArticleThe Powerful and Complicated Angela Merkel
Angela Merkel, one of the world’s most powerful women, appears on the surface to have a dual personality. On the one hand she has dealt a very tough hand to Greece through the German-led austerity...
View ArticleMerkel, Clinton and Trump
On October 9, 2008 the day of the second US presidential (so-called) debate in Missouri, Angela Merkel was in Mali, making the very difficult trip to a country torn in half by east/west political and...
View Articlecial Democrats in all of Germany. For those of us who were in the Bavarian...
After 160 days, the outcome of the October election in Germany has finally been reached. It will be yet another Grand Coalition between the Conservative parties in Bavaria and the rest of Germany and...
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