Friday, March 24, 2023

Five German News Stories

 1.  FC Bayern (soccer) fired their coach....Nagelsmann.  Front-page news.  Bold headlines.  

2.  Last night via ZDF's Maybritt Illner public forum show (live)....they had climate protection and the cost factor.  Green Party sent their chief (Lang).  From opposition was Premier-President of  Saxony (Kretschmer of CDU Party).  I'll just say they covered several topics and it was an awful rough debate.  Oddly, Kretschmer does believe that the Ukraine-Russia war will end one day, and over time....Russian export of Natural Gas to Germany will return to normal.

For Lang's comments....I'd say that selling all these mandates has a cost and she's not doing well on reassuring people.

3.  There's some rumor starting up that the German gov't would off you a 'discount' (bonus) if you had a older heating oil/natural gas home furnace.   Amount is not openly discussed.  

4.  Four subway stations in Berlin have been declared 'no-weapon' zones.  Cops even put screwdrivers on this list of weapons.

5.  Supposed to be a massive protest in Berlin this weekend....expecting 35,000 climate change protesters.  Weather for the day?  Showers mostly.  

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