1. Increased meat tax coming to Germany? Well...it's in draft form and likely to come into effect in 2025.
Animal rights organizations say that better welfare on farms is required, and this extra revenue would flow to farmers in some fashion. Presently, it's 7-percent as you exit the grocery today. So the new amount would be 19-percent.
2. German Bundeswehr (Army) is asking for the Chancellor to give some signal (speech) of more funds.
3. If you read the fine-print of the German Constitution....abortions are illegal. There's been a commission set up by the federal government to review this wording and they've come out to say the system has to change.
Their suggestion....it should be legal up to the first twelve weeks of pregnancy in the future.
Odds of passing? Well...national election in 2025, and I would imagine several parties don't want to discuss this idea.
4. WELT piece from yesterday....for a long time....environmentalists have said that wind/solar power....can bring 'cheap' power to the public.
Well....WELT says a study by a group of researchers working on this idea....says 'NO'....there is no such thing as cheap renewable power.
Changing anything? I doubt it.
5. WELT piece from yesterday....German doctors have identifed a person who has all the symptoms of 'Long-Covid', but this occurred/started....back in 2018 (thus having nothing to do with Covid).
They've invented a new term: 'post-viral syndrome'.
Personal opinion? Wouldn't shock me if you dug around and found 5-percent of society who have some symptoms....long before Covid ever appeared.
6. Mayor of Koln gave an interview....saying the refugee numbers in the city are at the point of a massive problem.
7. Til Schweiger, fairly well known German actor....in the hospital, has blood poisoning, and could potentially lose a leg.
8. Pumped-up TV debate with CDU top candidate Marco Voigt, and AfD leader Björn Höcke....for the state election race in Thuringia yesterday. Based on news commentary....no winner/no loser. Based on polls, I'd say the two parties together will take near 65-percent of the vote. Getting a coalition between either? CDU would be forced to a 4-group situation. AfD? Zero chance.
9. Via Russian state television last night, Russian propagandist Dmitri Evstafiyev suggested that a European nuclear war would lay out “millions of dead and mutilated Europeans”.
10. WELT poll....only 42-percent of Germans are optimistic about the future here in Germany. Begs questions about the other 58-percent.
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