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  • #241
    Yeah, I can imagine it would be quite an effort to get rid of them all...

    But seriously, methinks you ought to reload the turn, you got too many turns in anarchy
    Speaking of Erith:

    "It's not twinned with anywhere, but it does have a suicide pact with Dagenham" - Linda Smith

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    • #242
      Looks like Merkel is prevailing. http://news.ft.com/cms/s/a68a1174-37...00e2511c8.html

      I'm wondering what the fuss is about anyway. A couple of months of no gov't just means no new legislative initiatives (which by no means is an unequivocally bad thing) while the state bureaucracy keeps humming along.
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      • #243
        It´s just tactics,
        as both parties(SPD as well as CDU) want to gain as much power as possible in a great coalition.

        SPD knows that the CDU needs them (as Jamaica is very unlikely) if CDU doesn´t want to form a minority government (together with FDP).
        So they put as much resistance as possible against Merkel as chancellor, so that they might negotiate some additional ministries in exchange for their agreement to let Merkel be the chancellor (and it seems like SPD will be successful with these tactics, as Angela Merkel seems to be very obsesssed from the idea of being german chancellor [might have something to to with Helmut Kohl being her mentor ])
        Tamsin (Lost Girl): "I am the Harbinger of Death. I arrive on winds of blessed air. Air that you no longer deserve."
        Tamsin (Lost Girl): "He has fallen in battle and I must take him to the Einherjar in Valhalla"

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        • #244
          Btw, I recently got known to a young German guy (studying in Austria) who told me that he'll never go back and mentioned the horrible bureaucracy there.
          I've heard from others as well that this is a heavy burden.

          Maybe the parties in Germany should start by easying up the bureaucratic burden. Could be one of those hidden factors that slow performance and growth.

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          • #245
            I'm a student too and while it's annoying, how should it be different anywhere else in the world?

            BTW, concerning chancellorship, I really think we should leave the church in the village

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            • #246
              Originally posted by Proteus_MST
              It´s just tactics,
              as both parties(SPD as well as CDU) want to gain as much power as possible in a great coalition.
              That's not what I meant. When the results were clear, a lot of commentators were decrying chaos and lambasting the drawn-out negotiation process it implied. That seems a bit overblown.
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              • #247
                Because none of them was willing to leave the church in the village.

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                • #248
                  Seems they are leaving the church in the village again. The for today announced results of the coalition talks are postponed for another day
                  Blah

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                  • #249
                    Results coming out today, how was that supposed to work? I mean at this point we really ought to leave the church in the village

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                    • #250
                      churchs, er what?
                      Safer worlds through superior firepower

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                      • #251
                        Yeah...WTF?!
                        Speaking of Erith:

                        "It's not twinned with anywhere, but it does have a suicide pact with Dagenham" - Linda Smith

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                        • #252
                          Crazy Germans.
                          Captain of Team Apolyton - ISDG 2012

                          When I was younger I thought curfews were silly, but now as the daughter of a young woman, I appreciate them. - Rah

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                          • #253
                            "Glauben Sie das äärnsthaft?"

                            You lot know nothing about political culture

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                            • #254
                              Dorf (village) > die Kirche im Dorf lassen
                              not go too far, not get carried away (leave the church in the village)

                              Example: "Er soll die Kirche im Dorf lassen." (He shouldn't get carried away.)

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                              • #255
                                Yeah, I've just had that explained now
                                Speaking of Erith:

                                "It's not twinned with anywhere, but it does have a suicide pact with Dagenham" - Linda Smith

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