Monday, October 30, 2023

Four German News Stories

1. An interesting piece in WELT today....written by Elke Bodderas.  Topic?  Leftists and Islamists...together against Israel.  

I'll just say if you look around Europe (Russia as well), there's a fair amount of anti-Semitism going, which didn't really seem apparent before.   

2.  We had a bomb-threat called in for the local Wiesbaden train station.  So on Saturday evening, whole place was shut down for about three hours as the police searched the entire structure. Some trains were still allowed to come in, but everyone coming off...was searched.

3.  Unusual  story from N-TV this AM....'compliance training'.  So German companies have gone to requiring employees to attend training which more or less....stresses that you follow the rules of the company.

Yeah, it's a bit odd. 

My gut feeling is that it's mostly necessary because of Generation Z young people, and is a rehash of what most older Germans would say is logical behavior/attitude.

4.  The Chancellor is in Africa this week for 3 days.  One key stop is to talk natural gas sales to Germany, from Nigeria.  Might be a big deal....to swing some LNG situation.  


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