https://theeuropean.blogger.de/ Blogger.de jonhughes 2017-09-25T19:30:16Z en hourly 1 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z https://theeuropean.blogger.de/stories/2659793/ The day after the German electorate voted 33% for CDU/CSU (-9%), 21% for SPD (-5%), 13% for AfD, 11% for FDP (+6%), 9% for Bundnis90/Die Grünen (+0.5%) and 9% for Die Linke (+0.5%), a few things seem clear: 1. The SPD must go into Opposion 2. Die Grünen must refuse to take part in a coalition with CDU/CSU/FDP, and 3. Merkel must resign and new elections must be held 1. SPD as the parliamentary Opposition It is rare for a junior coalition party to profit from the liason, the horrific... Blogger.de jonhughes Copyright © 2017 jonhughes 2017-09-25T19:30:16Z https://theeuropean.blogger.de/stories/2636625/ In 1984 (!) Stewart Brand wrote the following: Information wants to be free, because the cost of getting it is getting lower and lower. Information wants to be expensive, because it's so valuable. The right information in the right place just changes your life. Blogger.de jonhughes Copyright © 2017 jonhughes 2017-04-03T11:04:34Z https://theeuropean.blogger.de/stories/2635853/ Two weeks ago I was pleased to see a flyer enclosed with "Die Zeit" pointing out a whole range of things that the EU supports and has achieved. Remarkable, I thought – such a shame that all this work gets so little publicity. And then the significance of the brochure became clear when I saw that it wasn't paid for by the EU, but rather by the German Government. Of course, governments that use the EU as a rubbish dump for their own political disasters are not going to be stupid enough to fork... Blogger.de jonhughes Copyright © 2017 jonhughes 2017-03-27T23:12:04Z https://theeuropean.blogger.de/stories/2634711/ Two hundred years ago, the Brits helped to defeat Napoleon. That might have been good news for the maniacs running Russia and Germany, but in terms of democracy in particular and social progress in general it threw back Europe a hundred years. And the Brits have kept looking back ever since. Their version of world history starts in 1066 - the only date they all know - with the Battle of Hastings and the other one at Agincourt, Magna Carta (sounds like Margret Thatcher) then the Second World War and... Blogger.de jonhughes Copyright © 2017 jonhughes 2017-03-20T00:11:17Z Search this site: q https://theeuropean.blogger.de/search