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German Spy Etiquiette Initiative Fails For Now
But will most likely be introduced again at a much later date once hell freezes over. The United States and Germany had been negotiating over mutual rules for intelligence-gathering aimed at each...
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“Friends Don’t Spy On Friends”
Somebody said that once, not all to0 long ago, after some NSA Aufregung (excitement) about something somewhere. I forget where. But I couldn’t agree more. So, uh, where’s the outrage now? Now that...
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Germany And USA Divided Over How Best Not To Do Anything In Ukraine
Although President Obama just went out of his way to stress that Russia’s aggression against Ukraine only reinforces the unity of the US and Europe to not do anything about it, Chancellor Merkel’s...
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It’s Not That We’re Too Strong
The rest of you guys out there in Europe are just too weak. Like start doing more push-ups or something. German dominance is in part a consequence of others’ retreat. That may be why complaints have...
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It’s TTIP, All Right
It’s TTIP of your normal-everyday-hysterical-German-anti-American iceberg. “All this enters the debate, but it surprises me a bit that the resistance is so strong in a country like Germany, where the...
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Dial M For Merkel
And something tells me there was a lot of heavy breathing during this telephone conversation, too. Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras made an uncexpected telephone call to German Chancellor Angela...
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Bavarian Codebreaker Needed
Not everybody can speak this lingo. I assume it has something to do with the G7 demonstration festivities going on in Elmau, Germany right now but I can’t say for sure. I am also assuming here that...
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Greece Worried Eurozone Could Collapse
And Greece is willing to help. Greek prime minister Alexis Tsipras has just pointed out to Merkel, Hollande & Co. that his country, accounting for a whopping 2% of the eurozone’s economy, is now...
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Mutti Looks Mad
Some say it has something to do with Greece or something. A small majority of Germans now want Greece out of the single currency, while an overwhelming majority believe that Europe shouldn’t offer...
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Gimme A G! Gimme An R!
As time ticks down for a deal, Athens and the lenders remain at odds over how far Greece is willing to bend to meet demands for austerity in exchange for funds desperately needed to avoid a default....
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I Got Your Green Credentials For You Right Here, Pal
“It’s ugly, but it gets you there.” But it’s ugly. And it’s getting uglier by the minute. The timing of the scandal could not be worse for the government. Chancellor Angela Merkel is scheduled to...
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You Can Fool All Of The People Some Of The Time
Roughly half of Germans asked are dissatisfied with chancellor Merkel’s refugee policy. This has come out in a survey taken by the INSA Opinion Research Institute in Erfurt. 48 percent disagreed with...
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The Mood Keeps Getting Better
Not. Here’s the latest Germany refugee crisis update: The European Union has criticized Germany for being much too lax with refugees who are seeking asylum in Germany. Not enough are being rejected...
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A Fireside Chat With Angela
Things have caught fire here and there these days, you see. We have nothing to fear but the refugees themselves. Just kidding, Leute (people). Sort of. Repeating the mantra “Wir schaffen das,” (“We...
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Angela Merkel Now More Powerful Than Barack Obama?
Like, duh. So is my Briefträger (mailman). Now for my money the real most powerful and toughestest muckahumma von Welt is Bad Vlad Putin HIMSELF. Bad Vlad is so tough he eats his steak with a straw....
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Politicians Making Promises They Can’t Keep?
This is something new, right? Well, in a way, it is. I mean, usually they make them to the people who elect them. This time they were made to total strangers. “Frau Merkel gave the insupportable...
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German Of The Day: Geht Nicht Gibt’s Nicht
That means, “it’s not possible is not an option.” And that’s where we are right now with this German refugee crisis, I believe. What would you think, my fellow Americans, if your fearless leader (let’s...
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Sweden… Austria… Germany?
I don’t want to be offenceve here Angie, but I think it’s time to pull the ripcord. How Sweden, the most open country in the world, was overwhelmed by migrants… Austria plans border fence to manage...
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Merkel’s Million Migrant March Marathon Making Masses Mad
Where on earth could all of this German nervousness possibly be coming from these days? The 1,000,000 refugee mark has almost been reached, the Paris Attacks are barely three weeks old, Saudi Arabia is...
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German Of The Day: Wutbürger
That means outraged citizens. And although they’ve always been around (Germans are always empört/outraged about something), Angela Merkel’s ongoing open-arms refugee policy seems to be generating more...
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