{"id":406,"date":"2013-11-27T17:08:03","date_gmt":"2013-11-27T15:08:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.020965.de\/?p=406"},"modified":"2013-11-27T17:09:18","modified_gmt":"2013-11-27T15:09:18","slug":"german-grand-coalition-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.020965.de\/?p=406","title":{"rendered":"German Grand Coalition Government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.020965.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/groko.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.020965.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/groko.jpg\" alt=\"groko\" width=\"552\" height=\"296\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-407\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.020965.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/groko.jpg 552w, http:\/\/www.020965.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/groko-300x160.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.020965.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/groko-500x268.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 552px) 100vw, 552px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Question:<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\nI am quite interested in your reaction to the announced &#8222;grand coalition&#8220; this morning in Berlin. I suspect I know what it is, but would love to see your interpretation of this.<br \/>\n<em>posted on 27\/11\/2013 in Santa Ana (Costa Rica)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Answer:<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\nWhile I would love to reply straight away, I am afraid I will have to ask you to allow some more time.<\/p>\n<p>    First of all, there are almost 200 pages of the Coalition Agreement which I will have to read. And also, the SPD&#8217;s rank and file will be asked to vote on whether they like this agreement &#8211; in fact, I applied to be a volunteer to help count those votes on December 14th, in Berlin.<\/p>\n<p>    If the members of the SPD vote &#8222;no&#8220; to the agreement &#8211; as I suspect they will &#8211; it is not worth talking about Germany&#8217;s future coalition government yet. Since the &#8222;grand coalition&#8220; agreement will have to be re-negotiated. Don&#8217;t expect to see a new German chancellor soon.<\/p>\n<p>    You surely know at what time of the year the disciples saw the &#8222;Risen Lord&#8220;. Well, I don&#8217;t expect to see a new German government to be formed any earlier than that, in 2014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: I am quite interested in your reaction to the announced &#8222;grand coalition&#8220; this morning in Berlin. I suspect I know what it is, but would love to see your interpretation of this. posted on 27\/11\/2013 in Santa Ana (Costa Rica) Answer: While I would love to reply straight away, I am afraid I will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[3,18],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paG60H-6y","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.020965.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.020965.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.020965.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.020965.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.020965.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=406"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.020965.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":409,"href":"http:\/\/www.020965.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406\/revisions\/409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.020965.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.020965.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.020965.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}