Indeed, there are still people who unfortunately think we better shall stay alone - e.g. move out all foreigners to solve unimployment. Nonsense, in my opinion: The main reason are not too many foreigners, but too few and (for the companies) too expensive job offers.
Imagine: I am a graduated computer scientist. And still jobless. On one hand, because I specialized in rather rare topics, unfortunately; on the other hand, because employers expect an employee being able to work >100% of the usual time in enough tasks for a whole team, for the salary of a half-day worker. When I finished my study, I could expect ~2000 EUR/month, now I would be glad to earn ~1000 EUR (netto) if I just had a job at all.
So you don\'t need to wonder why there is so much confusion. Do we need more restrictions on the already poor employees to rescue our national budget? Shall we elect a social party, or an economically strong one?
At the moment, both of the strongest parties (Christian Democratic Union, and Social-democratic Party of Germany) each have only ~35%. None of them can win on its own. The other 3 main \"second important\" parties (The Greens, the \"Lefts\"/Party of Democratic Socialism, and Free Democratic Party) each have almost 10%. So each of the big parties would need two coalition partners at once. Unfortunately, FDP and Greens are very different; and no one ever wants to get in touch with the PDS (in irrational fear of another GDR, IMHO). The last possible one would be a \"Great Coalition\" - but no party wants to give up on presenting their chancellor candidate.
Just the least thing we can stand is irritation, confusion, indecisiveness. And as long as we lack of decisions, all our trading partners worldwide may get carefull as well. They will be worried about the future of our export-oriented economy, and that makes it even harder to satisfy the european stability pact.
