1. N-TV had a piece this AM.....polling done in the UK says a majority of Brits want to re-enter the EU. Before you get excited....you need to note that this number is 51-percent....so just discussing the topic and having another election....you might not win it.
I would also imagine that 10-percent of this group wants a 'condition' or two if such an engagement was to be handled....like getting their 'payment' back or having some special trade clause, or refugees to be handled in some special way.
My gut-feeling....it's as divided today as it was when BREXIT occurred.
2. Joachim Gauck, former President of Germany....was on the Markus Lanz public forum show (ZDF) last night. Various questions came up, and he uttered some line that some East Germans (his old homeland area being former DDR)....'live in a intermediate realm' politically.
The meaning? A state within a state.
It would require a drink or two, but you are thinking of your regional landscape as having a slightly different view from the national landscape.
Yeah, I'd agree with Gauck.....but it's generally always been this way in Germany with state-by-state mentality.
3. The 'boss' of the Bundesbank gave an interview and suggested that the bank scenario of a collapse is now possible because of the way social media affects the general public.
4. I noticed that Russia raised the age of maximum enlistment for 'senior' officers.....up to 70 years old. Basically, if you'd retired back at age sixty a couple of years ago in Russia as a 1-star general....it's now possible for them to drag you back for a couple more years.
5. This 'promise' by the SPD Party in the last election that they'd be pushing the construction yearly of 400,000 home 'units' (apartments/houses)?
Well...over the next year, the gov't now figures around 177,000 units will be built. This is a noticeable failure. I'll just say it's a hard thing to promise.....with housing projects not really being a national trend.
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