“Wait and drink a tea”

We just got over an important weekend for Europe. Our fellow Germans voted and, as usual, their choices will affect European politics and economy, like it or not. Looking at the provisional results of the federal election we got an indication of a victory for the center-right CDU/CSU with 28.6% of the vote, followed by the far-right AfD (20.8%), center-left SPD (16.4%), Greens (11.6%), and socialist die Linke (8.8%). The far-left BSW (4.97%) and liberal FDP (4.3%) failed to reach the 5% threshold, meaning that, as things stand, they will not be represented in the Bundestag…