Pay and punishment; Germany's state elections.(What Germany's state elections tell you about national politics)

The Economist (US) | January 19, 2008 | Copyright

To judge from its state election campaigns, Germany's governing parties are flirting with recklessness

THE blows were struck in Bavaria but the impact was felt as far away as Hesse. On December 20th a young Greek and his Turkish companion answered a pensioner who told them to stop smoking on the Munich underground by beating him up. "We have too many young foreign criminals," responded Roland Koch (above, with Angela Merkel). Mr Koch is fighting to be re-elected for a third term as Hesse's premier. Foreign miscreants, he declared, should be deported; young ones ...

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