Ik woon in Duitsland. Hier worden nog steeds heel veel brieven verstuurd. Ik geloof dat ik twee weken geleden voor het laatst een brief heb verstuurd.

Immigrant refuses to learn the language of the country he moved to and goes on to feel unwelcome. What a shame. As an immigrant living in Germany myself I’d recommend he go somewhere else.

The important point, in my opinion, is that these refineries have been under direct German state control for years now. They only belong to Rosneft on paper because nobody wanted to jump through all the hoops to disown them. That would lead to endless battles in court and would likely require payment by Germany to Rosneft, which can be avoided by simply putting them under administration, as is the case now.

This is the reason why these refineries are already exempt from similar sanctions by the UK.

I didn’t believe that specific rule to be relevant to the argument. The Democratic Party includes a wide range of opinions that, in most European countries, would be represented by several different parties. While there are some fringes on the right (Clinton’s racists for example) and some fringes on the left (some Democrats even refer to themselves as democratic socialists despite being closer to social democrats in my opinion). The mainstream that has dominated all three presidencies you mentioned would likely find themselves among small c conservative or (economically) liberal parties in most European political systems that I know.

All I want is for iDEAL to be available where I live. It’s ok if they change the branding. It’s been working smoothly in the Netherlands for years now.

From what I understand the Democratic Party in the United States is a wide tent that includes people who consider themselves to be democratic socialists all the way to middle of the road, don’t rock the boat kind of folks. While the former might feel at home in a European social democratic party or perhaps even a socialist party, the latter would likely find more common ground among the liberal (in the economic meaning of that term) or conservative/christian democratic parties.

The main difference I feel is that most European countries have representative democracies with proportional representation in their parliament. This usually avoids the lost vote effect if you vote for smaller parties. Therefore, what are usually the wings of larger parties in the United States, would be separate parties altogether in most European countries.

Having said that the core of the Democratic Party and the majority of people in power and office from that party over the last decade or two have been centrists at heart. Even when given the opportunity they didn’t introduce any true universal healthcare. They didn’t address the fact that the minimum wage doesn’t reflect the rising costs most people face. They didn’t address the rapidly growing inequality. They didn’t move the needle on any public transport infrastructure projects. They successfully kept the country running and the economy growing while not seriously changing anything about the underlying structure of the nation. This is evidence enough for me to assert that the Democratic Party would probably be somewhere around Merkel’s CDU, Rutte’s VVD or perhaps Macron’s party (whatever name it’s currently going by) in terms of ideology.

Looks delicious!

It’s completely crazy that league matches on the regular schedule - not some kind of show match - are held on different continents. Imagine if they tried that in Germany. Fans would be throwing more than tennis balls and likely at a different target than last time.

The greatest trick the United States ever pulled was convincing the countries in its sphere of influence that they were allies on equal footing.

He’s still got it. I remember seeing training sessions from when he first started out at Bayer Leverkusen. He looked like a player manager at times and could easily hold his own in different training situations.

Thanks for sharing this insightful information! This seems to confirm the trend we all seemed to intuitively believe in.

But people going to random shops might have gotten more used to shopping online. I believe looking at similar examples if only just to prove a thesis we already believe in can be worthwhile.

Ich weiß; bleibt trotzdem meine Meinung, dass das so sein sollte, auch wenn es nicht so ist.

All the close calls that went in Liverpool’s favour like the flurry of late goals and winning games with some individual brilliance has now seemingly turned against them. At the beginning of the season they were winning every game despite not playing very good. I thought that this would mean that the team would eventually click and win games while playing well. Instead they have continued playing so-so but have started losing games. The Premier League seems wide open at this point.

Deeds are worth more than words. We should wait for the new government to take action and judge it accordingly. If Babiš’ last term is anything to go by his main priority will be himself.

Jeder Dialog mit Russland unter Putin hat etwa die Erfolgsaussichten der Münchner Konferenz seinerzeit. Das haben die Polen und Balten, die sich noch sehr gut an Russische Unterdrückung erinnern, gleich verstanden. Angela Merkel und weite Teile der deutschen Politik leider bis heute nicht.

Meiner Meinung nach sollte ohnehin juristisch aufgearbeitet werden inwiefern die Außenpolitik unter Schröder und Merkel ein Verrat am deutschen Volk und somit ein Bruch des Amtseids war. Ganz persönlich vertrete ich die Auffassung die beiden sollten in einem verplombten Zug nach St. Petersburg geschickt werden.

But that was a freak accident. Germany is the running joke of the competition for usually finishing last or thereabouts.

While I continue to believe that largely car free city centres will be more economically resilient, using data from before COVID is pointless. The way people shop and spend has changed a lot since 2018. It would be more interesting to see more recent data on this question to be able to shape future policies accordingly.

The Germans are hoping to win one of these competitions finally. If only enough other countries don’t compete, they might stand a chance.

Die Frage der versunkenen Kosten und wie die Zukunft einer bestimmten Investition einzuschätzen ist, muss meiner Meinung nach jeder für sich selbst beantworten. Es ist aber wichtig immer im Kopf zu behalten, dass vergangene Kosten keine Auswirkung auf die Zukunft haben (sollten). Nur weil ich einen größeren Betrag in einem Wertpapier versenkt habe, muss ich das nicht bis zum St. Nimmerleinstag halten ohne realistische Aussicht auf Besserung.

Zum Zeitpunkt: ich bin grundsätzlich Anhänger der “time in market beats timing timing the market” Herangehensweise, zumindest für mich als Kleinanleger. Ich habe weder die Zeit noch die Ressourcen noch das Wissen um den Markt sinnvoll beurteilen zu können. Es ist ohnehin fraglich, ob das überhaupt über einen längeren Zeitraum möglich ist. Daher würde ich auf einen timing-Aspekt einfach verzichten, solange ich kein family office für meinen geerbten Wohlstand habe.