Noch bis Freitagnacht streiken Lokomotivführer im ganzen Land. Massive Einschränkungen im Bahnverkehr sind die Folge, entsprechend verärgert sind viele. Der GDL-Vorsitzende von NRW hofft dennoch auf Verständnis.
happen. bill: do you remember last year when we sat here and waited for this speech, and do you remember the themes that came out of that speech, and you now consider that we were talking in great detail about the arab spring, and there were many corners of this country, and the world for that matter that felt that the arab spring was the beginning of a whole new day in that part of the world. where is that now, 12 months later? well, i think that dream lies in ashes. and i think it was always a misperception of what was about to happen. there are certainly prodemocratic elements in the various countries of the middle east. they have been overwhelmed in egypt by the muslim brotherhood, in libya by continuing chaos, in syria by a brutal civil war and one on want on one, so that the aspirations that some had for democratic change, while they may be be laud torre laudatory they have not panned out.