The EU Budget and the German Elections
Reuters points to a connection with the possible early general elections in Germany and the negotiations about the EU budget.
This makes me wonder what kind of election campaign this will be -- dirty, hard, mudslinging. The Social Democrats being challenged from the left, possibly a leftist alliance of Socialists, splinter Social Democrats, all led by former SPD Chairman Oskar Lafontaine?
It is clear that the conservative Christian Democratic Union will win the elections, but at what price? What kind of shadow cabinet will Angela Merkel present? In my humble opinion, it will be a very weak government, and it will be controversial at that. In recent years, Merkel managed to survive at the top of the CDU only because she managed to sideline all major competitors, including a number of very able people -- as she had learned from her old mentor, former Chancellor Helmut Kohl.
This makes me wonder what kind of election campaign this will be -- dirty, hard, mudslinging. The Social Democrats being challenged from the left, possibly a leftist alliance of Socialists, splinter Social Democrats, all led by former SPD Chairman Oskar Lafontaine?
It is clear that the conservative Christian Democratic Union will win the elections, but at what price? What kind of shadow cabinet will Angela Merkel present? In my humble opinion, it will be a very weak government, and it will be controversial at that. In recent years, Merkel managed to survive at the top of the CDU only because she managed to sideline all major competitors, including a number of very able people -- as she had learned from her old mentor, former Chancellor Helmut Kohl.
posted by UB at 1:26 PM
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