It is a banana republic scenario that seems to go on in Germany. The elected chancellor looses his lust to work on and instead of retiring, puts on a play so that the parliament decides to loose confidence in him suddenly.

That would be a good sign you think but alas the lection campaign goes awkward. The newly created ultra-left wing party sees (early in the campaign still) record highs of 11%. Instead of modernizing the crusted labor market system you will see campaigners talking about which tax to raise! Is it that Germany says goodbye to other competitive world economies?

Read on - 'Land of the lost'