Tuesday, November 28, 2023

Four German News Stories

 1.  WELT piece.  Opinion poll shows a majority of Germans (more than 50-percent) now believe that the budget crisis for the coalition gov't is such....that it will fall (meaning new election in 2024).

One other side event....even the states (16 of them) are worried that a lot of their planning for the past two years....revolved around the billions, which no longer exist....so they are pretty peeved.

2.  Lot of discussion by the Frankfurt cops over the soccer game from the weekend.....they want particular fans arrested for fighting....to be banned from the stadium in the future.

3.  The city government of Hannover has 'collapsed'.  It was a SPD-Green coalition city gov't.

Cause?  Well....the Greens pushed for a no-car inner-city/climate-friendly center.  Lot of hostility brewed up over this inner-city shutdown idea, and the SPD said 'enough'.

4.  N-TV had a piece this AM...talking over Germany and the heat-pump agenda.  The 'thrill' of going to the heat-pump?  It seems to have drastically subsided, and two-thirds of the Germans who own houses....don't want to engage in the renovation required.  Bad sign for the gov't?  Well....they would have to offer some type of 'credit' (cash funding) and presently....that's a 'joke'.

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