1. Focus went out and priced what will happen in 2024, as the VAT (sales tax) goes back to normal for restaurants/cafes (7-percent to 19-percent).
- Schnitzel plate (fried potatoes included). Today? 16.90 Euro. January? 18.80 Euro.
- Pizza. Today? 11.50 Euro. January? 12.80
Do I personally think people will lessen eating out? For those on a controlled budget....yeah...they will cut back.
The reality? The small shop with just two employees and marginally getting by right now? They will wrap up things by mid-summer 2024 because of a loss in sales. The bigger operation will survive on.
2. German TV-media tax is set to go up in 2025. Amount? 58-Euro cents.....so it'll be a monthly deduction of 18.94 Euro. Germans will grumble about the cost.
3. In 2 weeks...final episode of 'Wetten Das' will air on public TV. It's been 'on' since 1981, and the best way to describe it....it's like a Ed Sullivan Show, with a twist or two.
You had six to eight of these per year (it wasn't cheap to produce).
The gimmick of the show? Promi-folks involved in 'bets'. The most interesting thing....they brought on a border-collie who apparently knew the names of 1,000 of his 'toys'. Yeah...the dog performed well, and found the ten toys challenged.
The long drawn-out nature of the show? The moderator was typically supposed to wrap up things by 10:30 PM (it was done live). From the forty-odd shows I've viewed....almost all went to 11 PM, and at least ten of them stretched onto 11:30 PM.
4. Another Constitutional Court challenge to the Stoltz coalition? Well....yeah. They made up a second budget for the economic crisis period of 2023....revolving around natural gas prices. Apparently, there are some suggestions of a challenge over that recent budget, and it'd really screw up things, if the court comes in late 2024 to say it was a unconstitutional budget.
5. Not really a shock....the chief Linke Party (far-left) candidate for the EU election in the spring....has suggested that a renaming of the party is necessary. Public enthusiasm nationally? If you held an election today....the party would get in the 3-to-4 percent range. In the five eastern German states? There's probably three states where they'd get 10-percent of public voting still.
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