Sunday, December 18, 2022

Five German News Stories

 1.  Just odd....I get job advertisements....even though I'm retired (here in Germany).  Yesterday, I clicked on one....front-desk person for some German doctor (specialized).  Zero mention of needing English....they emphasized right off the bat you needed to speak, read and write in German.  They've reached a point where a fair number of applicants (I think) are non-German. 

2.  WELT wrote a piece (Sunday paper) noting that German families are now in permanent crisis mode.....3rd year in a row, and 2023 doesn't look that great either.

You see a lot of this, with people carrying around a 'bucket' of woes/burdens.

3.  If you remember the Green Vault robbery in Dresden from 3 years ago....a huge amount of diamonds were stolen from the museum.  Well....in past couple of days....most of what was stolen has been recovered.

Goes back to a crime family gang in Berlin.  Whatever their intentions were in selling the 'loot', I think it attracted a lot of attention.

4.  Electricity running over 1,000 kilometers from Azerbaijan to central Europe?  Yeah.....hyped up in the past 24 hours.  Plan would mean a cable running through Georgia, the Black Sea, and crossing Bulgaria, Hungary.  

The hype?  All clean and pure 'Green' energy.  Date?  2029 at earliest date, but I'd suspect this goes an extra two or three years.

Cheap?  No one really says that.  

5.  Chancellor and a number of VIPs showed up in Hamburg, as the first LNG ship delivered natural gas to Germany.  

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