into English

refuses to effing let me edit it. the ä is supposed to be an a umlaut

As is true for many German compound nouns, I don't think you'll find a one-word equivalent in English. In English a political party's core beliefs are found in its "platform," so I'd call it "a battle over the platform" or a "struggle over the platform."

hmm.. thanks that'll do

Or perhaps ideological strugges or battles over ideology.

Edited by: VinnyD at 1304 GMT

Richtungskämpfe
Ä
Ö
Ü
ß
Mathilde,
Wenn Sie wissen wollen wie man einen Umlaut schreibt, schicken Sie mir ein PM.

This forum allows HTML tags. To write an umlaut, write the following code(Remove the dash after the ampersand &):
Ä = &-Auml;
Ö = &-Ouml;

Ü = &-Uuml;
ß = &-szlig;
ä = &-auml;
ö = &-ouml;

ü = &-uuml;
I hope in the future TT will allow a better way to display umlaut and other foreign letters.

an easy swift thanks from the reply box, kano_jim!

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