Monday 21 July 2008

Big daddies grudge big mamma Obama

I was quite amused reading in leading German online news-source SPIEGEL.DE (with an English language sub-division lagging behind temporally) that French president Sarkozy and British premier Brown are not amused that Obama's trip to Germany gets more attention than his visits to their respective countries.

Obama's camp is cited saying that their focus on Germany is because Mrs. Merkel is supposed to be the most influential political figure in Europe, Gordon Brown being in troubles domestically and Nicolas Sarkozy being not long enough in power.

Rrr, nice little causeless conflicts... That is what the press is longing for.


Remark: Obama will speak in front of the Siegessäule (Victory Column) in Berlin on Thursday, and masses are expect to listen to him along the "17th June Street", famously known for the "Fans' Mile" during the last football World Cup and European Championship.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

just one small bugfix: street of the 17th of june, the day of the strike of the berlin wall masons.

Julien Frisch said...

I did correct it already yesterday, if I understand your bugfix suggestion right.