Posted on 04/08/2014 12:20:55 PM PDT by McGruff
A senior Christian Democrat criticized German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier's stance on Ukraine and Russia in a signal of a possible rift appearing within Chancellor Angela Merkel's right-left coalition over relations with Moscow.
Conservative leader Merkel and Steinmeier, who is a senior member of the Social Democrats (SPD), have been at pains to stress how closely they are coordinating on policy since the Ukraine crisis began, despite the traditionally warmer ties to Moscow maintained by the leftist SPD.
(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...
If you can mouth words containing more than two or three syllables, the Moscow Times is a good fit.
You have no idea what Russia House was, do you?
I'm surprised the Germans shut down their nuclear reactors in the wake of Fukashima. I read somewhere they're back to burning coal to replace the lost nuclear power.
Feel free to blow your insults out of any orifice you choose to.
This is exactly why no is taking you seriously. Analyze and provide some real data, instead of screaming “PUTINISTA!!”, and you might have some credibility, kid.
I’m sorry that you feel insulted. Times are tough for Young Pioneers. All that work for a red necktie for nothing.
Sure I do. It’s where you and Vladimir Pozner used to eat your borscht together and dream of a day when you could pump out propaganda again for a new Soviet style empire picked by a Praetorian guard of former KGB men and oligarchs who took vast sums of Russian money from the Russian people.
German coal use at highest level since 1990
Brown coal electricity production in Germany rose last year to its highest level since 1990, despite the country’s campaign to shift to green sources of energy.
The increase, revealed in figures published on Tuesday, prompted calls from Green politicians and environmental lobbyists for energy reforms to raise the costs of operating coal-fired power stations – especially those using brown coal, a highly-polluting fuel.
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Germany, which is the world’s largest brown coal miner, last year used the fuel – also known as lignite – to generate 162bn kilowatt-hours of electricity, according to EnergieBilanz, an electricity industry association. That is up from 161bn kWh in 2012 and the highest total since the 171bn kWh recorded in 1990, when east Germany’s ex-Communist plants were still in full flow.
Although energy from renewable sources – such as wind and solar power – has risen steadily over the past decade, to 147bn kWh last year, Ms Merkel’s decision to phase out nuclear power has left a gap that only fossil fuels could fill quickly.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/e6470600-77bf-11e3-807e-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2yKLcV14h
Hey, how is Valdimir Pozner doing, grandpa comrade?
Ahhh...
NO....
Try again.
Thanks for proving my point...
Oh you were a character in a David Cornwell novel. No wonder you’re prone to misunderstanding Putin. Come in from the cold, comrade. Oh, I’m so impressed. But how is Vladimir Posner doing?
What is your point? That you’re in love with Putin?
Good information, and thanks for the link.
I do not think Germany is going to sacrifice access to Russian natural gas for the sake of ‘democracy’ in Ukraine.
However, if this ‘crisis’ got the Merkel government to remove it’s moratorium on nuclear power and slow down its use of coal, that would be a positive outcome.
LOL..
So you think it was a movie, eh?
Again, no....
Not American, are you, eh?
Eh, you’re Canadian, eh? Comrade, where did you learn your English in Russian Communist training school for you and Vladimir Posner? You must only say “eh” at end of sentence if you’re Canadian, comrade.
Lol
You’ve got some real strange fantasies for a troll, doncha?
You had a point? I thought the ones you use are from the Kremlin.
“I thought the ones you use are from the Kremlin.”
Then as usual, you are incorrect.
Sure. You came-up with “banderist/svoboda” all by yourself.
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