1. Off Focus this AM....little story of the property tax reform, and how it relates to a guy who owns a garden property (orchard). Normally, his property tax per year is 198 Euro....under the reform, the state government has assigned 2,500 Euro as the property tax.
Logic to this? If you own a small piece of land used mostly as garden property, but it could be utilized as a home property....the states are eyeballing the actual 'real' value.
It'll be challenged but I suspect tens of thousands of garden properties will be like this, and be handed back to the states (people won't be able to afford 2,000 to 2,500 Euro a year for the property tax).
2. WELT had a piece this AM....talking about a poll that shows almost one-third of German society believes the political system is 'broken' and they want referendums. I doubt seriously that the Bundestag would go and allow this to occur.
3. The EU has come out with a new 'agenda'.....trying to 'strengthen' the news media apparatus. Countries opposing this? Poland, Hungary, and oddly enough....Germany.
Actual wording of what the EU wants to do? "The proposed Regulation includes, among others, safeguards against political interference in editorial decisions and against surveillance. It puts a focus on the independence and stable funding of public service media as well as on the transparency of media ownership and of the allocation of state advertising. It also sets out measures to protect independence of editors and disclose conflicts of interest. Finally, the Act will address the issue of media concentrations and create a new independent European Board for Media Services, comprised of national media authorities."
What might be freaking the Germans out? This comment of 'allocation' of state advertising. I'm just guessing that various tools are used to fund newspapers, and probably even public TV news.
As long as the three oppose the act? Well....it won't advance. If you were asking me if it's odd that German would oppose this? Yeah....pretty odd.
4. Lot of chatter/speculation going on....about electrical prices. Just in general....in some situations, it'll got 300-percent up.
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