Posted on 02/01/2016 6:37:17 AM PST by Olog-hai
Bavarian minister-president Horst Seehofer stoked anger over the weekend with plans to visit Russian President Vladimir Putin, Chancellor Angela Merkel's greatest foreign opponent.
Seehofer defended his plans to travel to Moscow on Thursday on ZDF television on Sunday evening, saying that "we're not running a parallel foreign policy in Germany". ...
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Unlike Merkel, Seehofer wants to put a stop to the flow of Arab refugees into Germany. He’s also an EU skeptic. I’m not sure how much political capital meeting with Putin will buy him at home, but Germany would be better off with Seehofer than with Merkel.
Like a girl trying to make her boyfriend jealous.
What are they supposed to do when their fairy godmother turns out to be just a fairy? They have to find another one.
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