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 »

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 »

Last night took place in Germany a television debate between the two main candidates for the coming elections. The results indicated that neither Chancellor Angela Merkel nor her challenger Frank-Walter Steinmeier, from the center-left, managed to win. Read the rest of this entry »

In just two weeks -September 27- the Germans will go to the polls to elect members of the Bundestag, the federal parliament of Germany. But not great changes are expected and so far it has been a lackluster race with no many surprises expected. Read the rest of this entry »

On September 24 until the 26, the G20 summit will take place in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The group of finance ministers and central bank governors from 19 of the world’s largest national economies plus the European Union will gather to discuss the financial state and try to get agreement on proposals aiming to avoid a repeat of the financial crisis. Read the rest of this entry »

Seventy years ago today, World War II began when Germany invaded Poland. A war that would last six years and would destroy more than 50 millions of lives as the German war machinery rolled over Europe. Read the rest of this entry »

Following my article about the German elections yesterday I have to report that the opinion polls were right and the party of Angela Merkel, the CDU, was defeated in two of the three states, Saarland and Thuringia. Read the rest of this entry »