DaveO wrote:I think Germany under Merkel would be OK with it...
The autumn election will be very interesting. Merkel and the CDU have been taking some big ballot box hits in regional elections in very unexpected areas in recent months, with major defeats in North Rhine-Westphalia, Baden-Württemberg and Schleswig-Holstein now followed by defeat in Lower Saxony.
She's currently scrabbling to distance herself from the business-friendly FDP, her junior coalition partner.
Only last month,
Süddeutsche Zeitung this week described the FDP as being about as "unpopular as athlete's foot and halitosis combined."