Thursday, November 16, 2023

Three German News Stories

 1.  The Constitutional Court issue is still being discussed today.  The SPD-coalition has been effectively slammed, with sixty-odd billion Euro taken away.  All of these 'gifts' that the SPD Party, Green Party and FDP Party were going to give the public....removed.  

How you could sum up the whole mess?  This government went into what was deemed a unlawful maneuver to create tax revenue reserves....just an inch or two outside of the normal budget process.....which was supposed to be a vehicle for their political promises in the fall of 2021 election.

All of this....created by Covid reactions?  More or less, this was supposed to be 60-billion for failing businesses and potential closures (an easy sell to the public). 

Could the government survive this?  Yeah, but the 'gift' business will be zero.  Several billion of this money was supposed to build all these charging stations for e-cars in Germany, for example.

2.  City of Landau has gotten aggressive about empty apartments.  If you are a landlord in the city, and have a property that has been empty for longer than six months....there's going to be fine assessed on you.  Number that we are talking about?  The city suggests 1,000 of these type of situation.  Population? 46,000.

Location?  It's in the Pfalz....about an hour SE of Kaiserslautern.  

Yeah, it's a pretty harsh situation, but designed to take on the folks who use property for B-and-B situations.  

3.  Apparently, several raids were conducted in Hessen, Bavaria, and Baden-Wurttemberg at massage studios....accused of bringing in Chinese women as 'hookers'.  Police involved?  Over 250.  

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