Friday, November 10, 2023

Four German News Stories

 1.  Offenburg region: 15 year old kid shot dead a classmate.  Motive?  None given so far.  Cops have not figured out how the kid obtained the gun.

2.  The German national welfare 'fund' ('Burger Geld') has hit an odd point....whatever the planned budget was in the beginning of 2023....things have heated up, and the gov't requires around 2-billion extra Euro to fund the situation.  Blame?  Well...journalists suggest an economy that is still lagging.

3.  N-TV did a poll...asking Germans if the new party ('Alliance Sahra Wagenknecht') will make it politically.  Only 37-percent agreed that they'd be successful.  Roughly 70-percent said that the party does not have the competence to handle all of the significant problems going (I would imagine if asked....most would refer to the economy).

4.  More Bahn/railway strikes coming?  Lot of chatter.  Union pressing for a 4-day work-week....Bahn has said absolutely no on that idea.  Suggestion of strikes around Xmas.  

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