1. Coming this summer to Germany....is a new software/sensor package which will be deployed along the German autobahn system. It'll monitor if the cellphone within the car is 'active' and take a picture. Picture gets sent to the cops.....if you are holding the phone in your hand....100-Euro fine.
My general take over this? You could have your spouse and two kids in the vehicle....each with a phone in use, and the cops will probably get three-hundred pictures per day which 80-percent need to be disqualified. Hands-free situation....like on my Audi A5? Perfectly legal.
2. I noticed off Focus....Andrea Nahles, who heads up the German Federal Employment Agency, did an interview with the Bavarian newspaper "Augsburger Allgemeine".
She made a blunt comment at German youth....that "work is not a pony farm".
The pony farm comment is usually used for kids to describe educational opportunities and that you should not waste your chances in life.
In this case....she's making it blunt that work was not designed to be a leisure thing...suck it up, and make the best out of the situation.
3. WELT this AM had a note.....German sick leave usage for 2022....was at all time levels....went approximately three-quarters over what was considered 'normal'.
Triggers? Well....Covid is in the mix, and flu has returned. If I ask my wife, she'll say stress is at a higher rate than in previous years.
In another WELT health piece....Germans are reporting more long-Covid issues....particularly around concentrating and focusing.
4. A new EU 'agreement' is laying there and unable to proceed....on climate change. Odd discussion....France wants a paragraph in the statement/mandate that says nuke energy is appropriate in fighting the 'crisis'. Germany has said NO....no nuke power paragraph.
5. Around six weeks ago in Berlin....fire started up in a refugee structure hallway. A Syrian woman died. Fire department has been investigating the cause.
Some conclusion announced late yesterday....arson. Was intentionally set. Cops now involved.
6. Results from this Berlin city-revote? Well....it's developing into a bigger mess now.
If you remember the whole reason for second vote (first being Sep 2021)....a lot of screw-ups developed.
New problems? They counted the 466 'found' ballots from the post office system. Based on numbers for this suburb of Berlin (Lichtenberg)......the CDU candidate won the district...NOT the Linke Party candidate (only 10-vote difference). Linke Party says they will mount a legal challenge.
Final? Well...no, there has to be some official announcement by the city election commission. There's a possibility that they have to find some compromise to make various folks agreeable.
7. Some case on Covid test center frauds concluded yesterday in Berlin. Court went to convict the individual. Sentenced to almost four years of prison for fraud.
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