1. Is there a housing shortage in Germany?
Well....yes and no. What you have in the highly urbanized cities (Hamburg, Dresden, Berlin, Frankfurt, etc)....is a ongoing crisis that city councils created....where property speculation is rampant....projects and housing are over-regulated....and cost levels way beyond your imagination.
Presently....nationally....some experts put the shortage between 500,000 and 1-million apartments.
But if you go over the chatter....rental prices have escalated and something you'd call 'affordable housing' doesn't exist for the common guy/gal on the street.
Blame? Well....it gets dished out but you can't really blame one single source for this.
Politically charged-up? OH YEAH. The parties seem to think that they can 'wish' something, and it'll happen.
2. Is there a refugee crisis?
What you have is a trend where the border of Germany doesn't exist.....people just appearing (having not stopped in France, Austria, Switzerland, Czech, Poland). At the point when the government says they won't support you (or provide housing)....the situation will cool off rather fast.
Does any political party want to take that step? Not really.
Adding to this fury, getting a migrant through the German classes, the integration class, and some craft/skill course....could amount to three to four years, and add up to tens of thousands of Euro of support while 'waiting' for them to be working people (paying taxes).
3. Unusable hand-grenades being produced for Russian forces?
It's just an odd story I saw yesterday....Russian soldiers in the Ukraine are loudly complaining that shipments of hand-grenades have arrived, but when in a situation where they are utilized....they fail to go off.
No one says where they were made, but I would take a guess that it's a non-Belarus and non-Russia factory.
If you really wanted to demoralize some Army....this is one of the dozen best ways to accomplish that.
4. German national soccer team drama over now?
Well....they hired the 'fired' Bayern coach from last year. Frankly, they conversed with several folks who just plain refused the job....so Nagelsmann is it for the next two years.
On worthily drama? It's almost a joke but probably 20-percent of German men take this pretty serious.
5. Some methane 'leak' in the Baltic?
Basic story developing....Swede scientists have found a leak going on and are fairly worried but can't state the amount of this leak. Could turn into a page one story rather quickly.
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