Monday, March 18, 2024

18 Jan 2024: Four German News Stories

 1.  Somewhere on Saturday evening....in the Neukolln neighborhood of Berlin....a fight started up.  By the time that the local police arrived.....there were about 60 individuals in some form of 'combat'.  Cause?  Unknown.  

2.  Some German car dealerships are having 'talks'.  The issue?  The whole strategy with bringing E-cars out and thinking they would sell?  Gone wrong.

I suspect the dealerships are about to tell Mercedes, VW and the rest.....halt the massive manufacturing 'strategy' of E-cars, and go back to the gas/diesel car plan.  

3.  For a number of months, the Economics Minister (Habeck, Green Party) has had 'help-funding' go out for certain industries in Germany....subsidies.  Into the billions of Euro.

Well....eleven countries in the EU have sent letters into the EU and said it's illegal on what he's doing.

After reading through the pieces....appears a good bit in Sunday news commentary, I'd say they have a legit case, and Germany will have to pay some fine.  

It's amusing, without the financial help....couple hundred thousand Germans would have been put on furlough or cut.  

4.  2nd volcano 'leak' appearing a couple of miles away from the original point in Iceland.  No towns in the vicinity.

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