Wednesday, March 13, 2024

13 March 2024: Nine German News Stories

 1.  Aldi says (the grocery operation in Germany)....they will open shortly....self-swipe stands...to lessen time waiting in the stores.

2.  The Chairman of the German Bundeswehr Association (Army union)....says there's a whole bunch of improvements that need to be made.

3.  Peter Kloeppel, head news guy for RTL commercial news....retiring in August. One of the more recognized TV news people in Germany.

4.  EU measure on enforced renovation throughout Europe?  Passed.

5.  Germans polled on the idea of a 'cap' on asylum folks per year....76-percent said 'yes'.  

6.   Four out of ten German nurses say.....they go to work when 'sick'.

7.  Head of Germany's largest power distribution network, Katherina Reiche, gave a blunt warning....there are power gaps in the grid.  

That coal phase-out plan....set to occur in 2030?  Yeah, she gave a brief talk.....she doubts that the plan is really going to occur. In this talk....she suggested a hundred-odd black-outs per year might start to be a norm....with hours of zero power being readily accepted/forced..

8.  WELT had a piece....talking over gender language, and a poll indicates that a majority of Germans don't want the idea.  Same group said that public TV (ARD/ZDF) are giving a very unbalanced view of the talk.

9.  WELT article on driving test failures.....historically in a higher trend now, with some folks failing not just on the first test, but the second, and the third. Questions arise over why.

2 comments:

Daz said...

I'm surprised it's only 4 out of 10 nurses. The one's they missed were probably home sick that day or too busy struggling in the ward to answer the survey.

Thanks again to the CDU for phasing out nuclear power. Idiots.

Schnitzel_Republic said...

Hey, it was maximum effort by the CDU, SPD, Greens and Linke folks on the nuke phase-out. Same story for the coal plant phase-out. As industry moves to Poland...I kinda expect Germans themselves to survey the idea of moving with the job, and exiting the country. Don't be shocked to see 10,000 Germans heading eastward by spring of 2025.