Germany has a new chanceler. Farewell heir. Schroeder.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe...eut/index.html

I'm surprised this hasn't been posted.

 

Well, anytime Germany comes up we internally struggle with isolationism vs. intervention

 

One of the women I work with is from Germany, and she says in that country it barely matters who is in charge; the beurocracy runs itself pretty much. That's just heresay though, I have no idea how German politics work.

 

Pretty much, the government provides everything but it also has it's nose in everything. There's a german lady in one of my classes who says that even childrens' first and last names have to be approved by the government.

 

The title made me chuckle

I've heard that in Germany, if you fail a driving test three times, you're sent for a checkup at mental institution. Joke or not, I like that idea :banana:

 

Not true. I lived their for 10 years and not once did I hear this. I could possible wrong but I highly doubt it. Atleast my little brother who was born there didn't have to have his name approved. And our German neighbors never mentioned it when they had their kids. Shrug.

 

Its actually REALLY REALLY hard to pass the driving classes there. And also its very expensive. **** they even had a driving test for bicycles, if you can believe that, with a little road coarse and everything for you to learn the rules before you took the test. They really don't take driving as a joke their. Something I wish America would do.

 

She also said they have different classes of drivers liscenses where you have to be certafied to drive a "sports car". Have you heard of that? I think we should adopt a program like that for trucks and suvs.