Before September's election, entrepreneurs had been an endangered species in the German parliament. The money on offer for MPs is less than a typical company owner's salary. But now they've made a comeback, as the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung points out. In the last Bundestag there were just 35 company owners and self-employed MPs; now there are 76 (of 709). The proportion of entrepreneurs in parliament is now roughly the same as in the overall population. Whether that will provide more impetus for economic liberalisation, however, remains to be seen.
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