1. New German military questionnaire is mandated for a response. So, the Bundeswehr said yesterday....roughly 25-percent of young men are NOT responding.
From the group that did respond....around half of them said they were agreeable to a boot-camp situation, and six months of 'duty'. Bundeswehr added...just because they said they were agreeable....doesn't mean they'd sign up.
Those who did not respond? Well...the Army says they will be threatened with a fine.
2. It's been around 2 years since Germany legalized weed/cannabis. Some folks are beginning to comment....nothing much has changed...meaning that illegal weed sales is still being conducted.
3. Read a Focus business article....for you to retire in Germany and be 'middle-class'....pension level has to be 1850 Euro a month.
4. Odd Lufthansa story from yesterday....they are reviewing options for long-haul flights...if jet-fuel shortages exist.
One idea being floated....having a stop-over (probably in the stan-republics or Russia)....to fuel up for Asia trips.
You'd be adding two to three hours to the trip.
5. Economics Minister....Katherina Reiche....wants to overturn the ban on oil and gas heating starting in 2045.
Drafted up currently. Chancellor Merz says this idea is “open.”
SPD support? I'd give it a 10-percent chance at best.....climate target is their focus.
The agenda is to force everyone down a heat-pump 'path'.
6. New poll for Sachsen-Anhalt state election (in four months):
AfD at 41-percent. CDU at 26-percent.
Greens at 4-percent (not enough for seats). SPD at 7-percent. Linke at 12-percent.
Meaning? AfD, if they stay at 41-percent...can't build a coaltion....the CDU could in theory partner with SPD and Linke to have a 50-plus-percent coalition.
HOWEVER, in the next four months...if AfD reaches 45-percent...it'll be fairly close to a NO-coalition situation.....one party gov't at that point.
7. Lot more chatter on this Hantavirus. It apparently has a 2-to-21 day incubation period. Presents initially as flu.
8. I watched about 15 minutes of public forum show....Maischberger....last night...via Channel 1.
Climate change talk....guest wanted to turn German citizens into CO₂ traders....where you had good numbers/bad numbers....and you would figure into certificate trading.
Pretty sure that 90-percent of society would not buy into this idea.
9. Carsten Linnemann, General Secretary of the CDU Party, gave a talk yesterday....suggesting that 50,000 card-carrying CDU members....might exit from the party.