Half of Greens Want Merkel to Stay

SPIEGEL ONLINE - International - German Politics 2013-08-15

"If I may, Mr. President, you are an asshole." It is a sentence that has a firm place in German political lore, and it was uttered by Green Party notable Joschka Fischer back in 1984, one year after the environmental activists were elected to German parliament for the first time. His target was center-right Bundestag Vice President Richard Stücklen.