1. Some agreement is starting up between Chancellor Scholz and Merz of the CDU Party. Election day is to be either 16 Feb or 23 Feb. It is in the midst of winter, and it wouldn't shock me if harsh snowfall affected things that day.
2. Poll done on support by Germans for the Ukraine militarily......57-percent of Germans support the idea. Among eastern Germans? Less so....near 40-percent.
Politically, it'll be a problem for the SPD and CDU parties in the campaign.
3. Poll done....only 1 out of 3 Germans want a CDU-CSU and SPD gov't as the coalition.
4. A major German printing company says printing the ballots is not a big deal...it's just that the timing here is around the holiday period, when most workers would be off for 2 weeks. There is no shortage of paper, as some have tried to suggest.
5. State of Thuringia is having a discussion....mandating a language test before you enter school. Clearly a road-block situation for migrant-kids.
6. The Flensburg public prosecutor's office has detained a 17-year-old from Schleswig-Holstein....kid was planning a Christmas-market attack to kill Germans.
Police to release more details today. Based on commentary....jihadist-behavior to figure into this.
7. Hamburg SPD politicians calling for Scholz as Chancellor to step down.
8. Solidarity tax is being challenged in court (existed since the early 1990s). Chief problem for the court? Entire design was to provide the gov't money for eastern Germany to upgrade. Complaint is that they've reached maturity now, and the tax has to end.
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