Posted by Rosa Maria Young on
December 14, 2009
Will our planet be helped?
Four more days to the end of the Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen and the tensions must be growing. A lot has been written and talked about this conference and still we don’t know for sure if we are going to get a Treaty worth of its name. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Rosa Maria Young on
November 27, 2009
A detour to Copenhagen before Oslo
One could say that we have a president who does not rush to decide or do things. In some cases that could be a positive thing. In others like the decision on whether to send troops and how many to Afghanistan it could be less so. The decision on whether to attend the Copenhagen summit at the beginning of December should not have been so agonizing for the president, specially if he believes in global warming. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Rosa Maria Young on
November 11, 2009
France and Germany together in Armistice Day
Across several countries in Europe and other parts of the world people have been commemorating today the end of four years of fighting in what was World War I. It began in 1914 and ended with the defeat of Germany in 1918. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Rosa Maria Young on
November 9, 2009
A day of celebration for Germany
Today is a day of celebration in Germany: the day the Berlin Wall came down 20 years ago. On November 9, 1989, East Germans were finally free and began to cross into what was then West Germany. The whole country was almost unable to believe what was happening. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Rosa Maria Young on
October 21, 2009
Which swine flu vaccine for the Germans?
Now there is not only the question of to be vaccinated or not against the swine flu but which vaccine to get if one could choose. News breaking over the weekend have Germany debating about the supposed two-class medical system. German politicians are in full damage control denying that they will receive a different and safer flu vaccine that the ordinary citizen. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Rosa Maria Young on
September 28, 2009
Angela Merkel remains chancellor
If only elections were in the US like in Germany: relatively short, fast with the results and then…back to work. Well Germany is Germany and last night its citizens already knew the result of the elections: Chancellor Angela Merkel had won. So in part it was more of the same as ‘Angie” as the Germans call her will remain their chancellor. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Rosa Maria Young on
September 15, 2009
Sarkozy’s happiness and well-being at the G20
Next week the G20 summit will start at Pittsburgh. One of the assistants will be President Sarkozy from France. As Keyboard Politics published on September 2nd, the French president had a meeting with Chancellor Angela Merkel from Germany at which time he said “We want to see things changed in Pittsburgh.” Read the rest of this entry »
