Saturday, March 1, 2025

1 March 2025: Five German News Stories

 1.  With Habeck withdrawing from leadership of the Green Party.....fair amount of bickering going on.  Party has to go through a rebuilding process.

2. German  protest-group....'Grandmas Against The Right'....had been denying acceptance of federal money in support of their group.  Well...evidence came out yesterday.....yeah, there was a federal 'check' for 5,000 Euro from the gov't. Questions will follow now.

Just a humble guess here....some German DOGE-effort is likely to occur over the next year, and several hundred fed-checks will be disclosed.  I don't think this will get into trillions  (like the US), but they are likely to find a billion-odd Euro 'wasted'.  

3.  If you remember the Aschaffenburg terror-knife attack from a couple of weeks ago....2 dead....events unfolded yesterday to 'label' the guy mentally defective (mental illness) so, he will likely get a not guilty situation and enter a mental facility for the remainder of his life.

4. For those who follow the Dresden bridge saga...there's apparently a new break in the steel of the remaining standing part of the Carola Bridge (over the Elbe River). 

In simple terms....this piece of the bridge has to be torn down as well.  This will be a halt in river shipping traffic for a couple  of days.

5.  New massive neighborhood planned in NW Frankfurt....up to 7,000 apartments in the project. For those who might have been stationed around Frankfurt, the current population is at 773,000.  1980 population was around 629k. 

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