Thursday, September 21, 2023

Three German News Stories

 1. Top story in Focus this AM....emails have come out from the Interior Ministry....showing some negativity over the Interior Minister and how she 'fired' an employee.  Lot of pressure being generated now....Nancy Faeser (SPD) probably will resign within sixty days.  

2.  New Civey political survey for Bavaria (ahead of the state election).  CSU will get 38-percent of the vote.  Green Party, AfD Party and FW Party are all bunched up at 14-percent roughly.  SPD is around 9-percent.  

From all this negativity-hype over the FW folks....it would appear nothing damaged their vote.  Right-of-center affects?  It'll easily go beyond 60-percent.

3.  Number of road-deaths in Germany in 2019?  3,046.  Number in 2022?  2,776. 

Back in 2008, it was at 4,477.  

A continuing trend?  Yeah....some due to better car design....some due to improved roads.  

Peak years after the war?  There were three of these significant years.....starting around 1970....where 19,000 deaths on the roads (yearly) of Germany were reported.  If you do the trend line from 1990 on.....almost every year, there's another 200 to 500 deaths less.

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