Tag Archives: CSU

It was supposed to be a joke from man to man, from a Bavarian arch-conservative to his like-minded compatriots. One of these brusque and disdainful jokes cracker-barrel men in traditional green tracht garments exchange over a half-liter beer at their regular’s Thursday pub table in a remote mountain village. But …

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The Bavarian Minister of Finance, Markus Soeder (CSU), a fierce Grexit supporter of Merkel’s  CDU sister party  apparently has moved away from his demand for a Greek euro exit. During a visit to Athens, Soeder said that the problems around Britain’s exit from the EU showed how difficult a Grexit …

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New loans to Greece? Arch-conservative Germans have ideas…Yes, to new payments under conditions. What conditions? The usual conditions usually posed by loan sharks: Gold and Real Estate. Bavaria’s finance minister Markus Soeder (CSU) told the daily BILD that should Greece receive new aid payments then there should be new conditions: …

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Unbelievable racism by a Bavarian politician member of the delegation accompanying German Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel in Athens. According to Greek media, the incident took place on Thursday during the visit of the German delegation  in Prime Minister Mansion and while photo reporters were trying to capture the best angle …

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Look what happened in Germany today! While the country’s conservatives directly or indirectly have been demanding that Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras should replace Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis, a ultra-conservative senior ally of German Chancellor Angela Merkel resigned. Peter Gauweiler, the deputy chairman of the Christian Social Union (CSU) – the …

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There is no cure for the Greek – German relations with insults and unacceptable descriptions to land into the minefields of both sides. There seems to be no sight of the verbal crisis diffusion, unless, German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble goes home and devotes himself to his rose garden. His …

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Lawmaker Axel Schaaefer from MErkel’s coalition partner SPD went well prepared to the German Parliament today. Under his arm, he has a copy of tabloid Bild. He has already marked the newspaper’s front page promoting an anti-Greek hate-campaign with a huge, thick X. When his turn comes to join the …

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 Aha! A small sleepy village in the German Upper Bavaria has the solution to Greece’s fiscal problems. The village is called “Peissenberg” and has a great man born there: Alexander Dobrindt. “Greece should start paying 50% of salaries and pensions in Drachma!” This revoluationary ’emission’ came from the lips of the executive secretary of the Christian …

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Oh, these Germans! Precisely those reactionary, conservative Germans! They can’t agree on a common policy towards Greece and they make Greeks so very unhappy and uncertain over their euro-future. Even though German Chancellor Angela Merkel  stressed on Monday that not any country would be leaving the euro zone as such …

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