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Skriven 2013-11-02 12:53:26 av Gerrit Kuehn (2:244/12)
  Kommentar till text 11082 av Ward Dossche (2:292/854)
Ärende: Re: US bashing?
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Hello Ward!

01 Nov 13 14:12, Ward Dossche wrote to Gerrit Kuehn:


 GK>> We are struggeling hard to reform this structure. It costs a lot,
 GK>> especially with states as small as you are talking about (and we have
 GK>> here in som,e places).

 WD> The city-states like Hamburg or Bremen, or the former East German 
 WD> states?

Hamburg, Bremen, Berlin, Saarland would come to my mind first...
From I certain point of view one might consider to do away with the states
altogether. There are only very few things I can think of that call to be
organised on that scale.

 GK>> We would very much like to reduce the number of
 GK>> states here, but this structure has been carved in stone, partially 
 GK>> on purpose by the Allies after WWII.

 WD> Create enough political-diversity that way they will quarrel, never 
 WD> again achieve to elect a single leader ... that was until Merkel 
 WD> showed up. :-)

Nah, simpler than that: in northern Germany Lower Saxony was artificially
formed, and Bremen and Hamburg were taken out on purpose to prevent a strong
industrial region here.
And Merkel has a hard time right now getting a new government formed. Once this
is done, she will face a Bundesrat and a lot of states that are led by
different parties or coalitions... not the most promising perspectives for her,
after all.

 GK>> Well, one might comment that this is because the world does not care
 GK>> about Belgium at all. Ah, forget it, that was rude.

 WD> The truth cannot hurt, I don't think it is rude but a correct 
 WD> representation.
 WD> When you're that small you really have to have something unique and 
 WD> essential to offer or go with the flow. Chocolate, beer and waffles 
 WD> don't seem to cut it ... ;-)

So going smaller would cut more?


Regards,
Gerrit

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