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Die deutsch-russischen Beziehungen basieren auf einem breit angelegten Fundament der Zusammenarbeit im politischen, wirtschaftlichen und zivilgesellschaftlichen Bereich. Deutschland ist einer der wichtigsten Partner Russlands in Europa und weltweit. Die deutsch-slowakischen Beziehungen sind traditionell freundlich.
Grundlage der bilateralen Beziehungen ist der deutsch-tschechoslowakische Nachbarschaftsvertrag vom Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Slovakia. Die diplomatischen Beziehungen zwischen Deutschland und Slowenien wurden am Die deutsch-slowenischen Beziehungen sind gut und harmonisch. Beziehungen zwischen den Staaten sind traditionell sehr gut. Embassy of Germany, Budapest.
Dezember diplomatische Beziehungen zueinander auf. Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Hungary. Diplomatische Beziehungen seit Both countries have a long shared history.
Embassy of Germany, Zagreb. Die Beziehungen zwischen Deutschland und Kroatien sind ausgezeichnet. Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs. Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Serbia. Date of establishing diplomatic relations: Diplomatic relations were established in Embassy of Germany, Athens.
Greek-German relations are currently at a very good level, with close cooperation within the framework of the EU and NATO, as well as frequent exchanges of visits between the two countries. Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Romania. Embassy of Romania in the Federal Republic of Germany [. Embassy of Germany, Sofia. Die bilateralen politischen Beziehungen sind partnerschaftlich und vertrauensvoll.
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Bulgaria. Embassy of the Republic of Bulgaria in Berlin [. Die politischen Beziehungen zwischen Deutschland und Portugal sind solide und beruhen auf einer breiten Grundlage. Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Portugal. Aus diesem Grund bin ich sehr stolz, dass ich seit heute, dem Embassy of Germany, Madrid.
Embassy of Germany, Dublin. Die Beziehungen zwischen der Bundesrepublik Deutschland und Irland sind traditionell freundschaftlich. Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade of Ireland. Embassy of Ireland, Germany [. Embassy of Germany, Tirana. Die deutsch-albanischen Beziehungen sind eng und partnerschaftlich.
Albanien ist Schwerpunktland der deutschen Entwicklungszusammenarbeit. Embasy of Albania Friedrichstr. Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Iceland. Embassy of Germany, Kiev. Ukraine Deutsche Vertretungen [.
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine. Embassy of Ukraine in the Federal Republic of Germany [. Embassy of Germany, Ankara. Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Turkey. In addition to the intense and institutionalized relations at the bilateral level, Germany is among our most significant partners in European security and political structures, including NATO, OSCE as well as the Council of Europe. Georgia country —Germany relations. Embassy of Germany, Tbilisi. April diplomatische Beziehungen aufnahm. Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Georgia. Diplomatic relations between Georgia and the Federal Republic of Germany were established on 13 April Embassy of Germany, Baku.
Die politischen Beziehungen zwischen Deutschland und Aserbaidschan sind gut. Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan. Germany recognized independence of the Republic of Azerbaijanon January, 12 The diplomatic relations were established on February 20, Nov 7, Dani Rodrik.
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Enter your password to confirm. Zum Feminismus, weil's in der Wikipedia "Today's featured article" ist: Und auch noch http: Die Wiege der Demokratie sehe ich allerdings trotzdem in Europa. Comment Anscheinend haben sich parallel unterschiedliche "Feminismen" entwickelt: In Europa eben mit den von dir angesprochenen Suffragetten.
In den USA formierte sich eine deutlich andere Frauenbewegung: Die deutschen Immigranten brachten das Bier mit -- zuvor war v. Immerhin haettet ihr den 2. Weltkrieg verhindern koennen, durch den Kauf von Postkarten! Dank der Bildungspolitik weiss natuerlich niemand mehr wo dies ist. Aber da werden wirs den Amerikanern dann zeigen! Es werden dannn Vergleiche gezogen wie: Aber seien wir mal ehrlich, wieviele meinen wohl Faulkner oder Bessie Smith, wenn sie von amerikanischer Kultur reden?
Ich finde du hast das Thema verfehlt. Um mal mit einem der so beliebten Drittes-Reich-Vergleiche zukommen: Comment Oh Tom, I respect what you're trying to do, but you are asking for it with this post. Nationalism is everywhere -- it only needs a little tease to flow out into the open. As for "culture," speaking linguistically as might be appropriate here , it simply means the way people live. Where there are people, there is culture.
If someone says, then, that a people have no culture, what they really mean is that they consider this peoples' culture to be inferior. It's usually not defensible to say this, and I certainly don't think it's true of American culture, or German culture, for that matter. But there's a lot of anger against the States at the moment, and posts like these are just bound to start the rampaging.
Zu jedem Volke gibt es etwas gut und etwas schlecht. Comment I can understand the criticism of the electoral college and the election, but correct me if I'm wrong, the German system is also in parts somewhat undemocratic. Here in Hessen, because of the possible coalitions, it's not clear whether Roland Koch will have to leave office or not, even though the polls show the majority want him out.
I also find it strange that average citizens have no control of which representatives come into parliament based on the zweite Stimme. I'd appreciate any corrections if I've misrepresented anything. It's not about a Leader, and whether he stays or not. It's about finding coalitions of parties with a stable enough majority in the house. Also, not voting for a candidate does not mean "wanting him out". I buy Pepsi, not Cocacola, but I do want Cokacola to remain available on the shelves. There are always good and bad people in every country.
HE IS the Choosen one! Ich bin nicht sicher, ob ich dich richtig verstehe, anyway Und yotix hat recht, was Koch betrifft. Er muss nun in jedem Fall eine Koalition bilden, d. All of that said, if we get another Republican president on the heels of "W", I'll be looking for political asylum in Europe. Bist du dir sicher? Mein kleiner Beitrag zum Thema: Mit der Erststimme wird der Kandidat gewaehlt und mit der Zweitstimme die Partei.
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My point about Koch is the following. One can question whether a particular democratic process, by nature an artificial affair, really represents the will of the people. I think if the election was formulated differently, for example if there had been say a direct choice between Koch and Ypsilanti, Ypsilanti would have clearly won. The fact that it's possible that Koch stays admittedly not so likely despite the fact that other measures of the people's will for example polls show that they want him out, I find a little odd. Comment Emily Chambers Actually I believe he is right, it's just another twist to the whole thing.
Auch Island hat uralte demokratische Traditionen: Comment Nee, Emily Chambers hat Recht. Was ich beschrieben habe, ist die Erststimme. Das Problem mit dem Mehrheitswahlrecht ist, dass letztendlich eine Partei die Mehrheit im Parlament haben kann, die insgesamt gesehen nicht die Mehrheit der Stimmen hat. Comment I don't mean to get too offtopic, but one observation that I have had is that Europeann countries seem to be governed from the top-down where the US tends to be governed more from the bottom-up.
In the US people actually often care about their local governments, where most Europeans seem to pay more attention at what happens at their national levels. That said, I don't think that most Europeans realize the autonomy of US states relative to eachother and their relationship to the federal central government. That said I don't know why they should have a problem with the US presidential elections. In the US we vote in our respective states at a state level, then each state gets so may electoral votes based on population which are then counted to determine who wins the presidency.
If the popular vote were used to determine the outcome of a presidential election then it would be likely that the largest population centers could easily sway the outcome of an election. I happen to be from a very large "flyover state" with a low population and I am glad that things work the way they do in the US. Would not the vote of a Luxembourger carry "more weight" than that of a German in pan-European election?
If such a thing exists If it doesn't then the three countries with the largest populations would be at an unfair advantage. Why should things be different in the US? This is a little off-topic, but since you asked about pan-European elections: There are at least two aspects of the EU that make my mind boggle: First, that unanimity is required for some changes to occur; that's about as undemocratic as it gets.
Comment This may be a heretical thought, but what's so sacred about democracy, anyway? Unless a country also has citizens who are educated and open-minded enough to vote sensibly, pure democracy can actually be dangerous. Not just Germany in the s since Godwin's Law has already been triggered , and not just Bush or to me much scarier Putin right now; look at the Middle East, where most voters would continue to deprive women and non-Muslims of basic human rights, or Africa, where corrupt, warmongering politicians get voted in time and again.
Look if you can bear to at Pakistan, where the not particularly savory Musharraf rightly senses that elections would only give more power to the Taliban, which in turn would govern much more dictatorially than he does. In any purely democratic country, many unenlightened people will vote solely for their own tribe, out of revenge and a desire for power and influence, minorities or outsiders be damned. And this is probably truer the less power and influence they currently have; the poorest, most oppressed people are often the most likely to elect vindictive, aggressive politicians, because only the threat of force seems to have enough power to change an unfair system.
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Did someone mention Malcolm X? Some US conservatives claim, naively, that people naturally vote in their own self-interest. But what happens when the majority can't even recognize their true interests, and don't care about any interests beyond their own, not seeing that safeguarding the rights of others will protect them in the long run?
What if people are determined to do what's bad for them and worse for the country as a whole? Democracy alone can't stop them; in fact, it only hands them more power. So one thing the US really ought to be exporting much more of is education. In the early years of the Peace Corps, we were trying to do that, but financial and political support for such programs has decreased sharply. Even as recently as a decade ago, people were still coming from all over the world to study at US universities, then taking their knowledge back to their home countries.
But now, with all the hassles over visas, we're increasingly discouraging free trade in ideas. The other thing the US desperately needs to work harder at exporting is human rights. Tom's original question may have been exaggerated for the sake of discussion, but his point about checks and balances shouldn't be overlooked. Maybe a core contribution of the US is not democracy per se, but the idea of a carefully controlled democracy, with one democratic group responsible for keeping an eye on the next, so that no majority ever has too much power.
Even if we have become a backslider nation in human rights on certain points capital punishment and Guantanamo, deep sigh , overall we still have a strong system of laws designed to protect minorities and individuals. Our constitution and Bill of Rights have served in part as a model for more modern constitutions, such as the postwar German one. Treating human rights, not democracy, as the real absolute, the sine qua non, is what sets a humane democracy apart from a law-of-the-jungle democracy.
Since that's the idea that we need to export, why is education so low a priority in our foreign policy? What would have happened if, from day one in Iraq, we had made a large investment in new textbooks and teacher training? And in the electricity and water necessary to keep schools open. What would have happened if we had put serious effort into building schools to compete with the madrassas in Afghanistan and Pakistan? If we could only invest, say, a tenth of our military budget in programs like that, instead of in high-tech weapons systems, surely the ideas that we most need to export would begin to take effect, however slowly.
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And perhaps this is also a naive dream, but it seems to me that an approach like that would get more support from countries in Europe, so we wouldn't have to do it alone. But we also don't want small states to have undue power. Why should the voters of New Hampshire have more influence on huge decisions like immigration policy or public health care than Californians or Texans, who are, after all, far more directly affected?
Why should a few Montanans have a greater say on gun rights than the residents of all the nation's large cities, where gun crimes are far more common? The two US legislative houses -- the House elected by population, the Senate by state whether large or small -- were an effort to balance those competing interests. But the truth is that no purely democratic system defends minority interests very effectively. Again, that's why direct democracy alone is not the be-all and end-all, or shouldn't be. Comment Thank you, hm - us, for being a voice of reason!
Especially regarding the disadvantage of democracy without education.