>>20666The German penal code contains a crime called "insult". (§185 StGB).
>>20669The worst thing about this government is that there is 0 consistency. Subsidies for something today, additional taxes levied on it tomorrow. Legal today, illegal tomorrow, and the other way round. Measures announced, measures not implemented, because the parliament is busy debating some far-reaching surprise law which will then be implemented, in a weakened form, then taken back.
Unfortunately that's only a more extreme form of what we saw since about the late 1990s. Red/green government decides to end nuclear power. Black/yellow government decides to continue. Fukushima happens, black/red government decides to end nuclear power and switches of half the fleet immediately, instead, Germany buys more Russian gas, then there's diplomatic fall-out with Russia, and the black now party decides we need more npps. Which might very well be a rational point of view, but how long are they going to stick with it? During the time it takes to built a nuclear power plant, Germany changes its opinion on nuclear power two to five times, and if a future German government decides to built npps, we can just hope that we're at an even number of flip-flops when they are completed so they won't be a complete waste.
In 2013, we wanted fewer refugees. Some Lebanese girl cried on public television, Merkel was declared a big old meany because she had made the refugee girl cry, and then we needed more refugees, and all of Europe needed more, open the doors as wide as possible, come, you Syrians doctors and engineers, even if you are pitch-black and illiterate.
The list could be continued.