1. In recent months, if you follow US car insurance rates....everyone is getting a hefty dose of reality, with yearly rates going up.
Well....I noticed off Focus....same issue brewing in Germany....where the national car insurance folks are reporting a three billion euro loss.
Rates? The figure given is a 20-percent rate increase expected.
2. Norovirus in Stuttgart? What the news reports are saying....726 folks at a fest tent....ended up with diarrhea, vomiting and nausea. Person-to-person contact. Pretty serious.
3. German Constitutional Court about to decide who pays for extra police protection at soccer games. They may say that the arena and soccer clubs may get with the bill. Could inflate ticket prices by double.
I will say this....almost every single arena now has some police presence....minimum of forty police either inside or outside the event. If you count up....man-hours for a minimum situation is 1,600.
4. Curious development on ending of German nuke power stations.
Cicero (the news magazine) says that the Federal Ministry of Economics 'rigged' up a report about the nature to shut down the nuke plants (the remaining three).
Federal Minister of Economics Robert Habeck and Federal Environment Minister Steffi Lemke (Green Party both) are rumored to have controlled internal concerns.
Both say the comment is not correct. However, for Friday....two committees of the Bundestag are supposed to open up a discussion.
If any were true (I have doubts)....yeah, it could trigger coalition talks....asking questions that the Greens would prefer not to answer.
One odd bit, WELT says that various members of the Energy Ministry had the opinion that keeping last couple of nuke plants operational....had strong benefit, and they were outruled by Habeck.
All of this....a wasted talk? Well....yeah, there are now no nuke plants in operation. Zero interest by both the CDU/CSU or SPD parties to restart nuke plants. Majority of German public see no reason to restart. They would readily admit if they have to buy nuke power from France or neighboring country....it's perfectly acceptable to do that. Even if you proved on paper that bringing back six nuke plants could cut 30-percent of electrical cost....will to rebuild is zero.
5. WELT study report....almost 22-percent of young Germans (14-to-29) would vote AfD Party (far-right) currently. That's almost double in a year. Some fear of where this may lead onto.
6. Bundestag set to vote on having a military veteran's day....would be 15 June.
7. 400 jobs likely to be cut at the German Tesla factory.
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