German voters deliver shattering defeat to Merkel

In an event, likely to be of huge significance for the whole of the EU, Germany's Green Party appears, this morning, to have won control of the wealthy German State of Baden-Wuerttemberg, a wealthy region along Germany's border with France and Switzerland, which has been under the control of the Christian Democrats since 1953. Read the Wall Street Journal report from here.

A video, highlighting the immaturity of the voters who have delivered this further disaster to European democracy, may be viewed here:

EU's Energy Commissioner downgrades Japan's nuclear crisis from "Apocalypse" to "Catastrophe"

In this blog editor's understanding of english, a "catastrophe" seems less severe than an "apocalypse".

Maybe its different in German! In either event it once again demonstrates that in picking EU Commissioners the general rule of picking the dumbest possible candidate still seems to apply!

If you do not believe this is true, read yesterday's remarks, reported here, and today's from here.