People and Politics | Looking Ahead. What Can We Expect from 2009?
251 views · Published 3 January 2009 · 5:55 · Indexed 20 September 2026
Channel: DW News · 2009 · Entertainment
What will move us, what will surprise us? 2009 is a super election year in Germany, and it's perhaps fitting that it's also the Year of Astronomy. There are elections to the European Parliament, local elections, the election by a special assembly of the German president, and of course nationwide federal elections, with the Social Democrat candidate and German foreign minister Frank Walter Steinmeier pitted against Chancellor Angela Merkel and her Christian Democrats. The year 2009 is also expected to be a year of continuing crisis in the e banking and car industry sectors, but it's also a year marked by German history: the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the 60th anniversary of Germany's Basic Law - the German constitution -. and the founding of two German states in East and West.
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