Wednesday, October 2, 2024

2 Oct 2024: Four German News Stories

 1.  News piece from ARD last night....roughly 500 drugs that are on a short-supply list in Germany, and if you were on some treatment plan (even cancer).....you might not be able access the drugs, without a lot of trouble.  National pharmacy companies aware of this....pointing to manufacturing outside of the EU and poor logistics.

2.  There's 'quota-talk' going on within the SPD Party.  The idea?  They would mandate in some way....x-number of gov't positions to be held by people of a non-German status.  

It might get pushed, but you have around a dozen significant non-German groups in the country.  Who gets status and who is pushed down on the list?  Turks occupy the top point of ethnic groups.  Russians follow (2.6-percent of population).  Arabic in third place.  Serbs and Poles follow.

3.  Germany has promoted a female (1st ever) to 3-star general status....heading up German Army's Operational Readiness/Support.

4.  German weather folks talking about a 'heat-wave' for this weekend (up to 20 C or 68 F).  

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