1. Excellent piece on Focus by Ulrich Reitz....going into the build-up of the AfD Party, and the crappy handling by the Chancellor (Scholz) and the Green Party. Worth reading.
What Reitz points out....since the beginning days of this coalition....the main idea of the Scholz team (SPD-Greens-FDP)....has been to ignore the AfD folks entirely. Polling since that point? Spiraling downward for all three parties.
2. Last Generation activist spray-painted a bank in Chemnitz yesterday.
3. Storms throughout central and north Germany yesterday. At some point, there were around 420 different emergency crews responding to trees down or flooded areas. In the Duisburg region, the train network was taken down....with people told to find hotels for the night.
4. The Health Ministry has drafted up a bill for the Bundestag, which they suggest will be the end of the recurring shortage of prescription drugs in Germany.
5. Saxony's Premier-President is calling for an German-Russian agenda to repair the natural gas pipelines (Nord Stream II). Politically a problem?
Some Germans (I won't guess the percentage)....have always viewed that there would be an end to the Ukraine-Russia war, and that natural gas sales would start back up.
6. The NATO 'boss' (Stoltenberg) was supposed to retire this year (2 terms as chief of NATO). I noticed off N-TV this AM that so far....no one has been able to find a qualified person for replacing him. So there's chatter that Stoltenberg will be asked to stay one more 'term'.
Odd? You would think that a dozen-odd folks would have qualifications for the job and would be fishing for the job.
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