Political Scientist Herfried Münkler Is Right: If

I Am Certain That The United States Next Year, Under A New President - Regardless Whether It's Obama Or Mccain - Will Present An Ambitious Program Promoting Renewable Energies And Energy Efficiency. Europe Could Quickly Fall Behind.

What We Have At Present Is A System Of Loss Socialism. Whatever Goes Wrong Is Shouldered By The General Public And Anything That Works Is Privatised. Worshippers Of Market Freedom Have Suspended The Most Important Economic Principle: Risk And Liability Go Hand In Hand.

Madame Merkel Knows Very Well That Her Conservative Christian Democratic Union Or Cdu, And The Csu, The Bavarian Sister Party To The Cdu, With Which It Shares Power Nationally, Must Change Their European Policies. The Fdp's Nationalist-liberal Position On Europe Is Presumably One Of The Reasons The Attempt Failed To Form A Jamaica Coalition Government Which Would Have Seen The Cdu, Fdp And Green Party Govern Together.

But, As Environment Minister, I Am Very Interested In A Thriving German Automobile Industry, Because I Can Only Pay For The Rising Costs Of Environmental Protection At Home And Abroad If There Are People In Germany With Jobs And Who Pay Taxes.

In The Business Of Politics, Emotions And Productive Dissatisfaction With The World In Which We Live Today Are Gradually Being Covered Up By The Minutiae Of Ordinary Life.