Sweet: "My" Lord Mayor made the Time cover

[Kellanved]

Of the European Edition, but Time is Time, I guess ;-).



http://www.time.com/time/europe/html/050516/wowereit.html

Of course the article features a major translation mistake - who is able to spot it? (hint: it is in the fourth paragraph).

[Book Lover]

1. "parliament"?

My assumption is that no city would have a parliament, per se. Am I correct? Do I win a prize?

[Kellanved]

2. Sorry, no

Berlin is a state in its own right - as such it has a state parliament, a city senate and 12 district Parliaments.

[Book Lover]

3. I did not know that!

How very interesting. Did that interfere or hold up any of the EU process?

The only other guess I'll make is "high school"? Oh, these are stabs in the dark...

[Kellanved]

4. Bingo

Wowereit was the first to attend a "Hochschule", which means "higher education" and not High School.

And yeah, the German Federalism is causing loads of problems with the EU - the EU treaties do not recognize Federal Republics.

On the one hand the Federal Government has to answer for all mistakes made by states - on the other hand the states try to get their hands on EU money directly. As a result -for example- the state of Bavaria has a bigger Embassy to the EU than the Federal Republic - the idiocy of that is pretty obvious, especially as it is the cause for far too many mix-ups and embarrassments.