Wednesday, May 24, 2023

Six German News Stories

 1.  There is a new draft bill going around in the Bundestag.  Basically, Habeck (the Economics Minister) is admitting that nationally....the federal government does not have a collection of data to handle the heating subject. 

So the bill says in present form.....German states (16 of them) must go and collect data from residents....on house age, insulation, type of current heat, etc.

The bill form?  Well.....89 pages.  Just to read it would require sixty to ninety minutes.  

Expectation?  You the consumer would have to admit (legally in some form) your kilowatt hour use (for 3 years).

Where the mess would end up?  There is some intention that all fossil fuel use would end by 2045.  Odds of this realistically happening?  Man, even if you said this was 20 years away.....I just can't see the mandate working in this manner.

2.  German polling for the Green Party?  Massive slip in past six months....roughly 40-percent down.

3.  The chief 'spy' boss of Germany says that Russia is out on some mission to hype-up folks to be negative about the direction of the German government.

I won't necessarily disagree with this, but the coalition government has picked topics to 'carry'.....while in a recession, and consumers are not that happy.  

4.  New poll says 50-percent of Germans want Habeck (Green Party), head of the Economics Ministry....gone.  Not that it really matters, but it's probably forcing the party to have a harsh discussion.

5.  The Sunday night public forum show....'Anne Will' will end at the end of 2023.  New public forum 'boss'?  Yes, from ARD late news....Karen Miosga.   

6.  This 'freedom of Russia' legion?  Well....over the past couple of days....fifty-odd Russians set off as a invasion force of Russia (yeah, not the Ukraine) went approximately seven miles into Russia.  

I don't think the Russians were expecting this, and the 'push-back' took about 24 hours (doesn't appear any of the invasion force survived.  

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