Wednesday, November 15, 2023

Six German News Stories

 1.  WELT had a piece on robbery and brutality of crimes this AM in their paper.  What the German federal police say?  A fair amount of the participants in these crimes....are juveniles (under age 18).

2.  There's some German Constitutional Court action going on about the Covid-money that the government created during the 2020-2022 era.  

Well....there's money still left, and the coalition gov't has said they want to use it for something other than Covid...in fact....for climate change.  Some folks felt that was illegal, and it's dragging up in court now.

3.  Siemens Energy has written a 'loss' down for their wind power business....up to around 4.6-billion Euro.

4.  New poll done....SPD rated at 14-percent nationally now.  For the EU election and the three state elections in the fall of 2024....this might be a harsh situation  for the left-of-center party.

5.  Some ARD (public TV, Channel 1) journalist who was a Russia-expert.....got noted for extra income from Russia (in the range of 600k Euro).  Illegal?  Well....only to the extent that he didn't report this to ARD.  Tax-wise, no one has said much yet (maybe he paid taxes on the income).  

6.  On this Ofarim court case?  Man, just not any witness in the hotel to agree to Ofarim's version of events.  Case continues on in court.

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