“Germany & Russia need more pragmatic approach”
Published: 01 April, 2009, 06:49
TAGS: Meeting, Medvedev, Merkel, Politics, Economy
“Medvedev and Merkel meet on a regular basis, and it’s important to find a more pragmatic approach to the relations,” believes Sonia Zekri, Moscow Bureau Chief of the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung.
“Looking at the financial crisis, everyone is trying to find a common language and start negotiations, putting differences aside,” she noted.
01.04.2009, 04:14
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01.04.2009, 13:47
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The Working Peoples of the World do NOT "need a pragmatic approach to Russia/Germany relations" at all - thankyou very much - let alone those of Us in Russia Today!!. "Pragmatism" is a precursor of Radicalism and Dogmatism - is it not?. When Nasser of Egypt was overthrown, for example, his successor stated that he was a "pragmatist". He was laudedd by all the reactionary forces of the Worlld not least the State Department of the Military Industrial Complex of the USA via the CIA. Look what has happened to the civil and human rights of the Working Class there and in Egypt ever since that era. We need a forward headed relationship that aims for a better future for the Workers in both of those States NOT the reverse!!!. Compromise is based on "Two steps Forward and One step back" - and then ONLY concede [if any] what is not needed by you and those you represent - is it not?? Or has "Proudhonism" taken control of our political sensibilites once more and turned some of us anew into "pragmatists in inter-State relations"?? I am reminded of "What's To Be Done" and "Where To Begin". Perhaps the quoted respected "Chief of Staff" and those that give her support need to revise "Forward" thinking somewhat and not only when a name is put to Paper - and even utilise a "dialectical" ruse or two in diplomacy??. After all the Art of [Diplomatic] Compromise is a Science too!!!. I am further reminded of "How to Teach Grandmother to Suck Eggs"!!!.
Agreed with Snowyone, I am an american, and I have the perspective of seeing Socialistic policies take over our country little by little. I applaud the strength that Russia is showing against the smooth talking globalists that control government policy in Germany. They just will not come out and tell the public that the pragmatism they are talking about means that Russia gets to share the debt and financial mistakes of the rest of the Socialist countries. The press over here would say that the USA is free, but I am sure that because of the media's bias, the majority of Americans do not even know that Putin actually balanced the budget in Russia and we here in the USA haven't done that since 1835. An historic event, I would have thought.