Plisch and Plum revisited; Germany.(Rating Germany's economics minister against its finance minister)(Michael Glos and Peer Steinbruck compared with Karl Schiller and Franz Josef Strauss)

The Economist (US) | February 25, 2006 | Copyright

A tale of two ministers

GERMAN politicians seem to come in pairs. The stars of the 1966-69 "grand coalition" were Karl Schiller, the Social Democrat (SPD) economics minister, and Franz Josef Strauss, the Christian Social Union (CSU) finance minister, a duo that won the nicknames "Plisch and Plum", from two cheeky dogs in a 19th-century poem by Wilhelm Busch. Their equivalents in today's grand coalition are Michael Glos, the CSU economics minister, and Peer Steinbruck, the SPD finance minister. How are they doing?

The question will be more pointed as the ...

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