New faces and not policies – Berlin Bulletin No. 142

Angela Merkel TTIP-Karikatur Pixabay.com CC 0 LizenzAfter nearly six months of haggling uncertainty the three-party German coalition puck is in the goal box. The suspense is over, the chickens have come home to roost! And this coop will again be ruled not by a rooster but a hen, for the fourth time in a row, and a tough old hen she is! Von Victor Grossman, 16. März 2018Not a few feathers have been ruffled. Until January 2017 stout Sigmar Gabriel was head of the Social Democratic Party (SPD). Because of the party’s disastrous popularity nosedive he was shoved out, but...