Wednesday, October 6, 2021

Five Things I Tend to Expect With the New Coalition (SPD-Greens-FDP, Now Likely)

 1.  Cannabis will be legalized to some degree.  I suspect it'll be like Amsterdam, and likely come by beginning of 2023.

2.  Sixty-minute flights within Germany will go away, as the Greens get their wish.  The end-game?  Those smaller airports which had 30 to 55 minute flights to Berlin, Frankfurt or Munich....will shutdown.  The regular flights from Hamburg to Frankfurt or Berlin to Munich will continue because they are usually 70 minutes long.  A fair number of the young Greens will still be angry that they didn't get the in-country flights cancelled.

3.  Nuke-power gets a second review, and potentially allowed to exist after 2022.

4.  Welfare as a class will dissolve away, and a new freshly named category ('basic income') will exist.  Same thing...maybe five-percent more.

5  The sixteen states will be given authority over the speed limit for autobahns.  I expect half of them to mandate 130 kph.  The rest will stay as they are.

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