A chance for democracy
I can just imagine that the SPD would tolerate a CDU minority government. We would have a chance of a strong opposition and an experienced prime minister who could make history.
At home in Europe and at home in Heilbronn.
I can just imagine that the SPD would tolerate a CDU minority government. We would have a chance of a strong opposition and an experienced prime minister who could make history.
As a counterpoint to the Heilbronn Experimenta, I have long wished for a Europahaus.
The most recent elections in the United States and the Republic of Austria, as well as the outcome of the Italian referendum, leave us in awe at the end of the year.
It all began when in 1945 in Europe, after a good 31 years of murder and manslaughter, the guns finally fell silent. Almost the entire world lay in ruins and the wars were shifted to regions of the world that were further away from us and less interesting for the western world.
The mere fact that people who are said to have invented democracy lived in south-eastern Europe a few millennia ago does not make today's inhabitants of Europe democrats.
We are approaching the end of the year with great strides and are hardly able to list all the grievances that have been and are still being made so obvious to us in the last few days and weeks.
We must not lose sight of our common goal, world union.
Freedom, peace, democracy and economic prosperity - Europe's promise to its citizens. In a global comparison, we Europeans are also doing well.
Our Europe is now already burning at its edges and even in the "home countries" of the European Union anti-European efforts are finding more and more encouragement and supporters.
We need to do more to promote our ideals and values.
The recent events in and around Europe are not only astonishing us European federalists.
How far does Europe reach, or rather how far can it reach?