The EU, Serbia and the Kosovo

Some time ago the EU had decided to support the Kosovar people in becoming independent from Serbia – besides the question and discussion about why they did so, i would also ask who thought about where to draw the Line?
In North-Kosovo (see german conflict-portrait) the majority are Serbs – now if the Kosovar can’t live [...]

We are the people! (are we?)

Some time ago we had elections in Hesse, Germany- the results: the CDU-governor lost a substantial amount of public support, while the SPD-candidate made quite some surplus and the new left-wing party ‘DIE LINKE’ made it into parliament.
The SPD struggled quite some time for whether they should have their candidate elected by the ‘DIE LINKE’ [...]

The western view on free press in Russia

The german chancellor and the german media come up with a lot of criticizm towards Russia that the free press there would be suppressed.
I think it’s good, that we sometimes put freedom first and try to implement our view of how things should work against the views of other countries.
But lets also take another viewpoint:
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Proposal: cut german income tax-rates by rel. 15-21% by cutting subsidies!

According to what i found out about tax-income-structure and expense-structure the german state could cut tax-rates by est. 15-21% by restructuring subsidies for the economy, real-estate and if the EC stops subsidies for agriculture (structural and social ones could still exist).
This is not a proposition to do it this way, as it’s rather clear to [...]

Comments on Gazproms serbia-deal

Just some thoughts on this which i may elaborate a bit further later:

it’s nice for Serbia, that they’ll become gas-delivery-hub to western europe and thus become more important in the region
it’s nice for Russia that they are in a strong position when it comes to european energy needs
the EC needs to make sure that we [...]