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The federal election is just four months away now. What if the Greens were to win it? Their policy pledges include putting solar panels on a million rooftops and subsidizing e-cars for commuters. This won’t come cheap - they would have to take on significant new debts to finance their plans. But that is easier said than done.
This month marked Sophie Scholl’s 100th birthday. One of six members of a peaceful resistance cell against the Nazis, Scholl was executed in 1943 for spreading anti-Nazi literature in Munich. In recent decades various political movements have tried to claim her as their own, resulting in the real Scholl being obscured behind the legend.
The election of another pro-independence Scottish parliament this month has led to speculation about the break-up of the United Kingdom. German media coverage of the election, which boiled it down to a story of xenophobic English vs cosmopolitan Scots, told us more about modern German attitudes to the British than it did…
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