Fixed it! I cut and pasted to get his surname right. Should have checked the rest of the line.
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Two remarks :
The address Scholz gave yesterday evening was the best and liveliest speech I ever heard from him and social democrats must have been desperate : why didn’t you perform like this earlier ?
Being no friend of the Ampel I nonetheless dread new elections at the present time, considering that we have two parties on the rise ( AFD and BSW ) that I find totally unacceptable and a serious threat to our country.
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https://x.com/ZDFheute/status/1854429950717173949
Wissing resigns from FDP and remains Minister of Transport, I didn’t have that on my bingo card
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German politics has suddenly become interesting. That’s not how it’s supposed to be.
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Is UK going to be the last big bastion for liberal political groups ?
France has gone , Canada mostly gone , as has Germany.
This is going to fuck UK up really bad especially with respect to Ukraine.
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Germany has not gone.
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That was a very useful diagram👍
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Why was the FDP minister sacked?
I think the last straw was when he publically published a paper that suggested a reversal of all government policies.
In truth, he has acted like an internal opposition in a government where he has supposedly agreed a package of policy. This has essentially held back any action and the government has stagnated as a result.
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This looks interesting for German speakers:
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I wish I was intelligent enough to decrypt this illogical nonsense.
Also and totally unrelated, I thought this was a “hello, I am a Liverpool supporter from Kiel, would be nice to hook up with you in Hamburg for a pilsner” thread. I’ve never entered this thread before.
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I started it and I meant it as anything that concerns LFC fans in Germany. That might be meet ups, discussions about Currywurst, or politics.
Alles klar?
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When we drove to Dresden this summer, I was amazed that the border control towers are still visible on the Autobahn. Purely for reasons of historical interest now, of course.
My wife lived in Travemünde for a few years when she was growing up. She was on the peninsula that was cut off from the rest of West Germany by the DDR. We went to have a look up the “forbidden road” in the mid 90s but there wasn’t much to see: a battered hut with some rude words about the SED leadership and that was about it.
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I just googled Travemünde, it looks like a lovely seaside town. So near Denmark.
Was it part of East Germany or West, before the fall of the Berlin Wall?
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You can enable english subtitles, In the video you can see where the border was.
edit, you have to watch the video below on youtube, border opening 1990
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Travemünde is ok, but Lübeck is well worth a visit.
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It was part of West Germany, but the bit where my wife lived was cut off by the DDR border. My wife’s mother worked in a hospital there. As there were no schools in that bit, she had to get the ferry each morning to the mainland.
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