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Can a Bavarian Oktoberfest beer indulger bring down the Berlin government?

July 5, 2018 by Dennis Kefalakos Leave a Comment

In the late hours of last Monday, Horst Seehofer the Bavarian, a right wing politician and standard Oktoberfest beer indulger, who has lately discovered the attractions of anti-immigration rhetoric, finally backed off from his threats to bring down Angela Merkel’s Federal government. He is the President of the right wing Christian Social Union party present […]

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The Bavarians threaten Berlin and Brussels with immigration crisis

June 21, 2018 by Dennis Kefalakos 2 Comments

In an unprecedented move, the German Interior Minister is betraying his boss – Chancellor Angela Merkel – and is forming an anti-refugee alliance with the extreme right-wing Austrian government and the precarious new Italian populist administration. The impossible German Interior Minister, Horst Seehofer, the leader of the Bavarian CSU party and junior partner in the […]

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Germany resists Macron’s plan for closer and more cohesive Eurozone; Paris and Berlin at odds

April 23, 2018 by Dennis Kefalakos Leave a Comment

Last week, surprising everybody, Francois Villeroy de Galhau, Governor of the Bank of France and member of European Central Bank’s Governing Council said that the decision to stop ECB’s extraordinarily accommodating monetary measures this year, is premature. So, according to him, the central bank must continue applying its extra relaxed measures well beyond this year. […]

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Germany not famous for easy way outs from political stalemates

November 23, 2017 by Dennis Kefalakos Leave a Comment

And now ‘Frau Bundeskanzlerin’ what? The truth is though whatever the future holds for the German political landscape, is no good. Chancellor Angela Merkel’s failure last weekend to form a government, with a viable parliamentary majority has irreparably stained the so far pristine scenery of the country’s politico-economic affairs. The unsuccessful attempts to convince liberal […]

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Chauvinism and xenophobia will lead to global assertiveness and more wars

October 19, 2017 by Dennis Kefalakos Leave a Comment

The immigration crisis of 2015 in Europe exposed the hollowness of the political system of the new millennium in the Old Continent, anguishing to cover the huge social cavities the economic neo-liberalism has created. Unfortunately, economic neo-liberalism didn’t lead to political liberalism, but instead to chauvinism, xenophobia and the insurgence of the extreme right wing […]

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