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Germany’s democracy is in danger, says President
TheLocal.de ^ | 18 January 2017 17:35 CET+01:00 | DPA/The Local

Posted on 01/18/2017 3:55:33 PM PST by Olog-hai

Outgoing President Joachim Gauck warned in a talk on Wednesday that his country’s democracy is at risk amid major international shifts, including Donald Trump becoming US President on Friday.

Gauck gave a speech to about 200 guests at the presidential residence of Bellevue Palace, looking back at his five years of serving as Germany’s head of state.

“Now, after five years, I am more strongly affected by the awareness that democratic and stable Germany is also in danger,” he said. […]

Gauck specifically named the crisis in the European Union with the United Kingdom’s impending departure, as well as conflicts in the Middle East and between Ukraine and Russia. These events have it clear that German and European foreign policies offer limited possibilities for taking action, he said. The threat of extreme Islamist terrorism has also grown.

And Trump’s election as US President has also presented new challenges for international order, Gauck added. …

(Excerpt) Read more at thelocal.de ...


TOPICS: Germany; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: democracy; eussr; gauck; socialmarketeconomy
And why is Trump suddenly to blame for Germany’s problems? Mehr gefälschte nachrichten.
1 posted on 01/18/2017 3:55:33 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai
Here are the two leaders who exploited their nations to the detriment of citizens more deserving:


2 posted on 01/18/2017 3:59:06 PM PST by yoe (USA do not let BHO further divide this nation as he "hangs around.....")
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To: Olog-hai

A few more million Africans will solve all your problems Herr President.


3 posted on 01/18/2017 3:59:25 PM PST by Organic Panic (Rich White Man Evicts Poor Black Family From Public Housing - MSNBCPBSCNNNYTABC)
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To: Olog-hai

>>And why is Trump suddenly to blame for Germany’s problems? Mehr gefälschte nachrichten.<<

More importantly, how is decreasing the influence of people NOT IN YOUR COUNTRY anything but GOOD for democracy?

And gesundheit.


4 posted on 01/18/2017 4:08:56 PM PST by freedumb2003 (obozo: not just the worst president in American history - worst *American* in American history (turf)
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To: Olog-hai

Exactly. What is the connection with the election of Donald J Trump to the POTUS position - with regards to Germany’s democracy?

The fact is that all democracies in western countries are safer with Donald Trump assuming the office of the President. Obama was absolutely a zero as a leader, and he did not care one iota whether we continued as a democracy or whether any of the Christian nations of Europe remained free and Christian.

Obama only showed emotion when his pals in the mosques were anxious over the backlash from a terrorist attack by a Muslim. Then he would go into a offensive posture and hark back about 900 years to King Louis IX and his Crusade to the Holyland. I am surprised that Obama never cursed el Cid.


5 posted on 01/18/2017 4:09:39 PM PST by Gumdrop
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To: freedumb2003

‘democracy is at risk amid major international shifts’

These elitists are telling us exactly what they think a democracy is. A democracy to them is Merkle throwing open the gates for all to come in. Democracy to them is OBama/Pelosi passing it so WE can find out what is in it. Democracy to them is Britain having no say whether to stay or go from the EU. It is that simple.


6 posted on 01/18/2017 4:15:01 PM PST by taterjay
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To: Olog-hai

Talk to Reichskanlerin Merkel about that...


7 posted on 01/18/2017 4:16:37 PM PST by Hugh the Scot ( Total War)
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To: Olog-hai

“as well as conflicts in the Middle East and between Ukraine and Russia. These events have it clear that German and European foreign policies offer limited possibilities for taking action,”

Germany.... you have done more than enough for Russia and Ukraine. Thanks.


8 posted on 01/18/2017 4:17:02 PM PST by DesertRhino
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To: Hugh the Scot

Reichskanzlerin... Tiny keyboard, fat fingers.


9 posted on 01/18/2017 4:18:27 PM PST by Hugh the Scot ( Total War)
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To: Olog-hai
He's got Obama and Trump mixed up.

Obama is the one who thought he was elected president of the world.

Obama is the one who went to Germany to campaign for president in 2008.

Obama is the one the Germans were cheering and crowning with roses and ladies underpants as if he came to Germany to be their new Fuhrer.

Trump is the one who believes in being president of the USA, not Germany and not the world.


10 posted on 01/18/2017 4:20:43 PM PST by Iron Munro (If Illegals voted Rebublican 50 Million Democrats Would Be Screaming "Build The Wall!")
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To: Organic Panic

We brought in around 420k African slaves over a 200+ year period. That has become around 40 million African Americans today. Just as an example.

What is the effect of this Million plus, in one year, in a nation with 25% of the population of America? Germany has been destroyed. If cannot be fixed. They just don’t know it yet.
The German mind has turned its genocidal hatred towards white people and their own culture. But the mentality is alive and well.


11 posted on 01/18/2017 4:20:47 PM PST by DesertRhino
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To: Olog-hai

“Democracy” means rule by the people. Apparently, only the Elite are considered people, and the rest of us, something less.


12 posted on 01/18/2017 4:26:21 PM PST by rightwingcrazy
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To: DesertRhino

I’ve talked to Germans over there (live south of Berlin part of the year). Some of the idiot liberals actually believe Germany can turn all these Africans and Muslims in to tax payers to fund their retirement and medical system. “If there is one nation that can do it it is Germany.”

The New York hipsters that infest down town Berlin love it because they don’t have to deal with them.

The rest of the people are furious. When the German revolution starts it’s going to be in the small towns.


13 posted on 01/18/2017 4:27:06 PM PST by Organic Panic (Rich White Man Evicts Poor Black Family From Public Housing - MSNBCPBSCNNNYTABC)
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To: Organic Panic

I think its just too late. They simply do not have the stomach to evict Angela’s millions. They are there to stay, they will breed like flies, never assimilate, and create more and more problems requiring more and more repression.

And the Germans will love it, because there is nothing they love more than lamenting their struggles. Goes back to the Sorrows of Young Werther. Dueling scars. Even in the Holocaust, they continually lamented the difficulty of their work and how they were shouldering such tough duty. Then for reasons they never fully understood, the Russians invaded, destroyed Berlin and raped all the women.

Germans wallow in misery, they secretly enjoy it. Even their porn is very odd and disturbing, probably only exceeded in weirdness by Japan.


14 posted on 01/18/2017 4:43:17 PM PST by DesertRhino
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To: Olog-hai

Because obviously it is Trump who invited an army of rapefugees to Germany to destroy that nation.


15 posted on 01/18/2017 5:12:32 PM PST by Bigg Red (To Thee, O Lord, I lift my soul. Thank you for saving our Republic.)
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To: Olog-hai

If Germany is too stupid to see that a certain religion is their problem, then they are going to get their just deserts.

Funny how they tried to eliminate a religion full of achievers, and now they’ve got a religion of beheaders.


16 posted on 01/18/2017 6:40:17 PM PST by Da Coyote
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To: Olog-hai
German Democracy is all but dead thanks to the Euriopean Union, the elites taking the advice of Brecht to elect a new people via immigration, and the totalitarian speech laws in the Eurabia province of Deutchistan.
17 posted on 01/19/2017 3:30:39 PM PST by rmlew ("Mosques are our barracks, minarets our bayonets, domes our helmets, the believers our soldiers.")
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