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03.06.2010, 13:49
Zitat
[URL=http://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/0,1518,698498,00.html]Spiegel-Online: Machtkampf um Köhler-Nachfolge - Von der Leyens Chancen schwinden, Wulff neuer Favorit[/URL]
Arbeitsministerin Ursula von der Leyen wird nach Informationen von SPIEGEL ONLINE womöglich doch nicht Bundespräsidentin. In der Union gibt es ein hartes Ringen um die Köhler-Nachfolge, CDU-Landesfürsten opponieren gegen Merkels Favoritin. Nun gilt Christian Wulff als Favorit für das Amt.
03.06.2010, 14:07
Original von AtroX_Worf
[URL=http://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/0,1518,698498,00.html]Spiegel-Online: Machtkampf um Köhler-Nachfolge - Von der Leyens Chancen schwinden, Wulff neuer Favorit[/URL]
Arbeitsministerin Ursula von der Leyen wird nach Informationen von SPIEGEL ONLINE womöglich doch nicht Bundespräsidentin. In der Union gibt es ein hartes Ringen um die Köhler-Nachfolge, CDU-Landesfürsten opponieren gegen Merkels Favoritin. Nun gilt Christian Wulff als Favorit für das Amt.
Ja hoffentlich, bloß nicht von der Leyen. Ich hatte gehofft, dass der erste Name verbrannt ist.
03.06.2010, 17:44
Horst Köhler's resignation is bad for Germany, for Europe and for politics
The sudden departure of a good man as Germany's president is profoundly destabilising for Europe. Horst Köhler has resigned following a hate-filled press campaign against him fuelled by headline-pandering German politicians who fail to see that 21st-century Germany is no longer the post-1945 dwarf orphan of world politics.
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His remarks were grotesquely and cynically misinterpreted by the German press, which is now febrile, excited and seems to resemble more the newspaper operations of Citizen Kane than the once sturdy, balanced, objective reporting we used to associate with German papers. There is no political centre in Germany any more.
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In the past, Germany has always provided the passive sheet-anchor stability that allowed Europe to work. Occasionally a Schmidt or a Kohl would find partners and a surge of European integration would take place. But now Germany has no idea of what to do next. It will not admit that its economic weltanschauung, based on relentless exports and damped-down internal demand, is now part of the European and world crisis of capitalism.
Köhler has resigned with honour and dignity. But those whose loud voices called for his head are now part of the problem and will never contribute to the solution. The anti-politics and anti-politician mood now unleashed in Germany and elsewhere in Europe is ugly and is doing damage to representative democracy.
