Tag: Andreas Baum

• Thursday, September 22nd 2011 - 08:21 UTC

  Fifteen “Pirates” bring fresh air to Berlin and humiliate Merkel’s coalition

  

  Last Sunday outside of Germany and probably Eastern Europe the feat was ‘uneventful’, but the Pirate party ‘captured’ 15 seats in Berlin’s state assembly with 8.5% of the votes humiliating major parties such as the Free Democrats and landing Chancellor Angela Merkel yet another political setback.