Sunday, June 25, 2023

Four German News Stories

 1.  WELT reported an odd poll where they asked Germans.....if a AfD win occurred and they ran the government....would you think about leaving Germany?  Oddly....one out of seven Germans said 'yes'....they anticipate themselves leaving.  Where?  No one asked that particular question.

The logical end-point?  It is possible that AfD might one day get in the 30-perccent range and win an election....but without coalition partners....they will never run a government.  

Oddly, I posed this scenario to my German wife about a month ago....if we'd have to leave.  Oddly, her response was 'yes, we'd have to go'....but never answering next question....'where'.

2.  WELT had a piece where they talked about older homes in need of renovation (particularly for heat) and how the cost of the renovation is affecting sales prices (figure these older places are now 190,000 Euro less because of this problem).

3.  Linke Party calling for 14-Euro to be the minimum hourly wage in Germany.  Probably will come but not in 2023 or 2024.

4.  Some kind of weird episode yesterday at the Munich Airport as people were boarding a Lufthansa plane.  Some German gal (27) started removing her clothing....walking around nude in the cabin area.  Cops got called and asked her to dress back up.  She went into frenzy (I'd suggest a drug episode) and was fighting the police.  One cop was injured before they could get her tied up and removed.  

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