Guido Westerwelle

It was widely reported and tweeted yesterday that Guido Westerwelle, the FDP (Liberal) party leader who will be Germany's next foreign minister, refused to speak English when requested to do so (28th September). Es ist Deutschland hier The BBC correspondent asks Westerwelle to speak English, and Westerwelle says that as this is a German press conference in Germany, he can take questions in English but he will answer them in German. This seems perfectly OK to me, but a lot of other Germans have been making fun of him for this. I admit he gets tactless after answering, when he says in German 'We can meet outside the conference for tea and speak English, but it's Germany here'. I hope…