Tuesday, November 7, 2023

Four German News Stories

 1.  From that summit of German federal and state officials yesterday...on the topic of migration....it's an interesting twist for results.

First, this meeting went on for 17 hours....a heck of a long day for folks who arrived at the meeting around 9 AM.   

So....onto the key thing....benefits are now limited from federal/state folks....to 18 months.  

Payment on a 'cash-card' device?  Yeah, that's now part of the future for refugee benefits.  They aren't saying 100-percent, but it sounds like the majority of your limit will be on a card.

Flat-rate per refugee, per year?  Yes, that's also now to be built into the system.  You max out at 7,500 Euro.  The feds will cover this cost....to the state distribution system.

Border control to be maintained?  Yeah....at least with Switzerland, Poland, Czech, and Austria.

If you figure the total package....the federal gov't has to cover around 3.75-billion Euro in costs.

2.  Harry Kane, the noted Brit soccer star....a member of the Bayern Munich team for 3 months.....still looking for a house?  Yeah, and presently....the team is paying in the neighborhood of 11,000 Euro per day for the hotel apartment he has.

3.  If you sat at 8 PM to watch ARD (public TV) Tagesschau (nightly news)....about 5 minutes into it....the teleprompter  blacked out.  It is a unique show.....nightly news for 15 minutes, done live out of Hamburg.  You could tell...the guy's blood pressure went massively up.

4.  Interesting suggestion by the CDU Party on the antisemetic demonstrations going on.  Their idea?  If you violate any rules on hate-speech during these protests....detain the person, and take away their passport.  Basically, if you often went back to your homeland (beyond the EU)....without the passport, you can't go.  

Habeck, the vice-Chancellor, had earlier said that if you went into hate-speech territory....with dual-citizenship at play (a fair number of Turks are in this category)....Germany should go through the action of lessening the burden of allowing you a German passport (meaning, you would lose that German citizenship deal).

Shocking some folks, if some court laid out the threat?  Yeah, and likely to be challenged via the system.   

Even if you were a German-only citizen....they only have to provide the German national ID card (mandatory).  They could easily revoke your passport privilege, for the remainder of your life....meaning you never leave the EU. 

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