A new president was elected in Germany by the parliament in a “Federal Assembly“: Joachim Gauck, an anti-communist pastor and human rights activist from former East-Germany; he maybe is a real freethinker – at least better than any Wulff-character (it was said, that the former president Christian Wulff was corrupt – he had to cancel his job, when investigations started …)
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the “Reichstag“sgebäude by Norman Foster,
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