Colours of Jamaica

摘要

Angela markel, the German chancel-lor, wanted a traditional marriage. Her Christian Democratic Union (cdu) campaigned for a coalition with the liberal Free Democratic Party (fdp), a familiar pairing, which won voters' consent in federal elections in September. But this is not the only sort of cohabiting arrangement in German politics now. In Saarland, a tiny state between France and Luxembourg, the cdu is about to enter into a racy menage a trois. There it will lead Germany's first state-level "Jamaica" coalition, with the fdp and the Greens as its partners (the epithet refers to the parties' colours of black-for the cdu-yellow and green, which are also those of the Caribbean island's flag).