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How to Appease Germany’s Constitutional Court
One stereotype about Germans is that they love to complain, typically with self-righteous bluster and hair-splitting inflexibility. Much less known is the addendum. Having complained, and realizing that their position is untenable, Germans are also remarkably adept at changing the subject and moving on. You see this in domestic politics all the time. Last fall the Social Democrats, the junior partners in the government of Chancellor Angela Merkel, chose new party leaders who had theatrically promised to break the coalition on matters of high principle. As soon as they became aware of the consequences, they simply ... (full story)