For Axel Voss's go now to Brussels

Bonn - He grinned like a Cheshire cat: FDP leader Werner Hümmrich with its liberals of the Bonner won the European elections.
And "his" candidate Alexander Graf Lambsdorff draws for the second time the EU Parliament. Even the CDU-Europe candidate can rejoice: Axel Voss solved the ticket to Brussels.
The kids steal the show the great - so the short version of the Bonn vote. Rich gained 5.5 percent, the Liberals.
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FDP boss Werner Hümmrich: "The increase is substantial. That is more than the national average. This openness of the voters, we naturally want to use for the coming elections. "
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The Greens Dorothee passport wine Gartz and Tom Schmidt were infected by the good humor Hümmrichs. Enthusiastically they followed the high results from all voting districts.
20.5 percent came together at the end. "We took second place in Bonn. We have the potential to get started right now, "Schmidt commented overjoyed.
   With mixed emotions and utmost exertion experienced CDU-Europe candidate Axel Voss the evening. Time and again the anxious look on the computer, then the relief: He's managed to Brussels, the result of the CDU NRW is good enough.
But after that, like the Bonner Party chief of the critical issues had to cast the loss of the Christian Democrats have. Almost 7 percent less than in 2004 - a clear downward trend. He was responsible for federal issues such as the discussion of Opel, "We have lost because voters to the FDP," said his analysis.
Even greater hangover in the other People's Party: The petrified faces took the SPD leader Ernesto Uli Harder and MP Kelber the result of 19.3 percent note.
Harder to EXPRESS: "Of course I would prefer a different result. But we are a bit better in Bonn as the SPD in the federal government, "he consoled himself.
For SPD candidate Sebastian Hartmann Brussels remains a tourist destination. He fails to parliament.
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Zdebel suddenly hope

Leverkusen - fetched as temporary help and now suddenly more important than ever: On Thomas Zdebel (35), it comes on Saturday in the important home game against Bayer Frankfurt.
Arturo Vidal is still longer. And on Thursday, the next shock: Simon Rolfes had already stop after 20 minutes with the training pain>. The captain suffers from an irritation in the knee ligaments, its use is highly questionable.
Therefore - and also because the youngster Toni Kroos impose as yet not - it's time for the veterans, who had previously only been used in Hoffenheim. There Zdebel played confidently - and Bayer won 4-1.
"With his experience and his way he plays, he'd be good for us," coach Bruno Labbadia focuses on the fighting power of Zdebel, who has recovered from his injury and all-clear is: "I voted Thursday for the first time really with the team trained. My knee keeps playing I can. "
Types as it needs the Werkself in their precarious situation. Zdebel has recognized: "The quality of the team's true. But that alone is not sufficient to win in the league. You have to give 100 percent every game. Every game is nasty. The game against Frankfurt. We need to get out from the downward spiral and points. "
And at Bayer are glad they came for the winter Zdebel from Bochum. Manager Michael Reschke: "Exactly for such situations, we have undertaken Thomas. He can help us. "

Wetten dass.? On the couch with Lily and Boris

Dusseldorf - still lack the glamor. But the little bit of dust and spread on the famous couch (already eight years under his belt) does not bother me at all.
I'm just Thomas Gottschalk. I'm sitting in Hall 6 at Germany's most famous show-sofa.
A piece of furniture that one could thus also be found in a Swedish furniture store, but already on the superstars like Will Smith, Salma Hayek (in separate sharp Dirndl) and most recently Tom Cruise were sitting.
In the crack is found but not a Scientology brochure, not even an old, rock-hard jelly babies. Somehow, everything is very unspectacular without the celebrities. And I'm not exactly in top form Gottschalkscher.
At least as far as the pun. But anyway, the cameras do not yet run. There are only times the final acceptance of the famous backdrop (produced by Bavaria in Munich, which also "made Das Boot").
But what is this: Suddenly, Lily and Boris come on the couch. With a beaming smile, the dark-skinned Lily draws the eye immediately on, I'm nervous. Only Boris why suddenly has black hair? Sure, there are only doubles the light of the stars.
"Very interesting, I'm doing for the first time," says Lily, who is actually Marleny Ostermann-Lopez, comes from Bolivia and lives in Düsseldorf. Cengiz POLICY is betting against an old "know that.?" Hare.
"I have been through 2007 as Wettkandidat in Basel. The glass bet. I was at the sound of breaking glass recognize the corresponding variety. "
Meanwhile the Unterrather is the second time as a light double it. And probably already working on the next Wettidee. "I will not comment," replied he, mysteriously, like a star.
But is betting on, know that.? normal. The contents of the Secret Betting run on top. On Friday however, they are all played out, even the supposedly very spectacular outside chances at the airport.