The EUObserver tells us about a possibly far-reaching anti-trust lawsuit by private German tv-stations against public German television stations ARD and ZDF. Should be interesting to follow this.
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Oskar Lafontaine and the “loony left”
Whenever people start talking about the “loony left” I can’t help but thinking about Oskar Lafontaine, the former chairman of the Social Democrats and German finance minister who luckily stepped down in March 1999. This week’s English edition of the Frankfurter Allgemeie Zeitung reports that I am not the only one who is being driven mad by his seemingly scheduled attempts to obstruct the government and regain influence in the SPD.
Cocktail at 21 hundred.
NY Times columnist Maureen Dowd explains what the invitation to a Washington cocktail party tells us about the world we live in now: ‘Diplomacy in Washington now runs on military time.’