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The Lion and the Lioness Part Two

As predicted in the same-titled blog of not so long ago, (Part One), a 60 year-old woman who does not care about charisma, and lives in a modest apartment in Berlin, rather than a mansion, is now the...

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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...

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Is Humpty Europe going to fall?

Like the fate of Humpy Dumpty, the decline and fall of the European Union – an event that has been long predicted by Euroskeptics – seems to be  gathering steam  from the southern Hungarian border to...

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The 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...

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Merkel, 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...

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Now you CETA, now you don’t

Picture this scene. You are sitting in the splendid bier garden in front of the splendid Jagdschloss on Rotkreuzplatz in splendid Munich on a splendid June afternoon, minding your own business while...

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TRUMP IN CONTEXT

“Liberalism itself has failed, and for a pretty good reason. It has been too often compromised by the people who represented it.” ― Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ’72 So,...

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A Warning From France

The news from France this week was marginally positive with the caveat that a crypto-fascist did come in second and will be in the run-off for President. But for now it seems that the run of Crazy...

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The decline and fall of the final European Empire?

Well, what is going to happen to the European Union in the next decade? Will it go the way of all the other attempted regimes that have come and gone since the good old days when the French, the...

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cial 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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