Wednesday, February 1, 2023

Five German News Stories

 1.  Yesterday was the last day on the property tax submission for Germans....under the new 'gimmick'.  

What the gov't said.....around 10 million German home owners have yet to file the new paperwork.  Yes, a fair number.

Bavaria, on it's own....has offered up a 90-day extension.

The percentage done so far?  Roughly 70-percent.

Reason for problems?  Mostly a complicated digital form type of submission.  From my prospective....I don't think they ever tested it with the general public.  The design seems like it was intentionally developed for failure.  

2.  Via WELT, there's a new study which suggests public support for the Ukraine has hit a maximum, and started to slide now.

3.  Over the past couple of days, the Health Minister (Lauterbach, SPD) spoke to the topic of Covid, mandates, and school closures (2020, 2021 and 2022)....saying the school closures were a 'mistake'.  

4.  There's a 'fire-letter' (letter of complaint) that Hessen politicians (mostly mayors) have sent to the Chancellor's office.  Topic?  The migration/refugee situation has to change. 

Key subjects?  Not enough housing, deportation has to start up with problem-people returning home, and schools unable to handle the situation.  

Odds of this getting any attention?  State election coming up in Hessen, and this is probably a top five type situation....where locals talk about the problems.

5.  After that train attack from ten days ago in the Hamburg region....the state folks now admit there are twenty separate investigations going on.  A lot of this is circling around the suspect and how lax handling kept occurring over and over.  There's political fallout coming for someone....at the end of this mess. 

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