1. Several days ago in Spain....in a tourist area where Germans frequent.....five Germans were accused of raping some German female tourist. Spanish police reaction? Arrest of the five and being held.
Naturally, this made it into the German papers (it's a top 10 topic). So about 72 hours passed before the Spanish papers said (not the German news media) that all five 'Germans' arrested are of a migrant background. I've yet to see this talked much about via German TV news or newspapers (with the exception of BILD).
2. Focus talked about a economic survey which should alarm folks. Roughly one-quarter of all German business operations are considering giving up. Reason? Taxes, finding trained/capable employees, and bureaucratic requirements/paperwork.
You can walk around my local town (Wiesbaden, 283k residents), and see one-hundred-plus 'help-wanted' signs. I see them on the interior of buses and trains now....where the bus/train companies are begging for people to apply. You see them bakeries. You see police 'help-wanted' posters. You see cafes begging for table-help.
3. McDonalds Germany announced some things changing in the future. The bun size? Well....it's going to shorten (in heighten) by some margin while the patty will remain the same. Cheese to be used? Some different type which melts 'easier'.
4. WELT had a piece on Sunday....talking over Hamburg's central train station, and how it was regarded as one of the more dangerous stations in Germany (for theft and assaults).
5. WELT piece....on the Italian version of 'Last Generation' activists....called 'Ultima Generazione' has been noted collecting personal data on the Italian kids who are in Italy's Friday's For The Future group. What it appears like? Profiling who would be future members for U-G. Odd tactic, and something that you tended to see in 1930s Germany.
6. Over the weekend, there were a panel of German doctors who came up and said that around a quarter of all surgery done in Germany....ought to be a one-day outpatient situation....thus saving healthcare insurance companies around 10-billion Euro a year.
I'll just say from personal observations....no one ever goes in for a one-day or even two-day situation. Even for a minor deal....you probably can expect three to five days of hospital time.
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