1. Early on Sunday morning (4:30 AM)....explosive device went off in Bonn (3rd episode in a month). Some perception by police....connected to gang-war starting up in Koln. No one wounded.
2. ARD TV news did a report on Sunday....noting the question....for those asylum-seekers who already have placement/papers to stay in Germany.....is the current integration program working (or enough)?
If you posed this to working-class Germans....more than half would say something 'else' has to be put into the system....to 'Germanize' new residents.
From my prospective....without much training or programs....it takes a good ten years for someone new guy to assemble all the vast knowledge and 'wit'....to really fit quietly into the German system.
3. Merz, 'boss' of the CDU Party....gave a talk Saturday an said....the odds of a partnership with the BSW Party is pretty remote.
4. One in three German police employees....report that they've heard racist/sexist comments from their co-workers. To be honest, if you asked plumbers, fire-fighters, transmission mechanics....it's probably the same statistic.
5. Four-percent of the German population (around 3.5-million) in the country...are migrant-asylum status folks. I should state for the record....a fair number of the folks are from Ukraine, and whether they stay here or return home....is a question-mark.
6. Winner and losers in Brandenburg state election from Sunday:
SPD: 30.9-percent.
AfD: 29.2-percent.
Greens: 4.3-percent
CDU: 12.1-percent.
BSW: 13.5-percent.
FW: 3-percent.
Two curious notes. First among the 18-to-25 age group....very high number went to AfD. Second, Greens did dismal and will not have seats in the state assembly.
7. As bad as the losses-chat for VW is currently.....it gets a lot worse for the end of 2025. I'm not saying this is the end of VW....but what magic is done by the Bundestag....will be the biggest 'fix' since WW II. Help for Ukraine in 2025? I'd suggest that it dramatically drops by 90-percent.
8. Between my gym (in town) and my village.....there's a building which has been a bakery/cafe for 10 years....which shut down about three months ago. This week, workers showed up.....started a renovation project.
New business? Well...nail saloon. Yep....a booming industry in Wiesbaden...must be at least fifteen of them already. Money-laundering operation? Well....I often wonder about that. Twenty years ago in town....might have been three or four total.
9. Over the Brandenburg election results....lot of chatter on Sunday evening suggesting that a early federal election is now possible....with the FDP possibly giving notice of unhooking to the coalition.
I'd rank it as mostly BS. Would shock some folks for a new election.
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