Sunday, December 10, 2023

10 Dec 2023: 4 German News Stories

 1.  INSA did a national poll of Germans, on trends in voting.  CDU-CSU Party would have 30-percent.  SPD Party would have 16-percent.  Greens would have 12-percent.  FDP would have 6-percent. AfD Party would have 22-percent.  Linke Party would have 4-percent (meaning no seats in the Bundestag).  Free Party voters would have 3-percent.  11-percent were spread around to other lesser parties.

Bad sign for the coalition?  Yeah....combined, they would get 32-percent of public voting.

2.  Minister of Health (Lauterbach) made a number of comments yesterday over new numbers of Covid infections.  Things are still in a reasonable state, where national mandates have not been issued (like mandatory wear of masks). I tend to believe in the next week or two....mandated wear of masks for bus/train travel will occur.

3.  Odd story reported via N-TV....Russian military expert has reviewed North Korean manufactured ammo received in Russia, and proclaims quality is a serious problem.  

4.  New Bahn (railway) prices coming up shortly....for long distance trips...prices will go up 4.9-percent.  

1 comment:

rtrouton said...

Number 3 isn’t so odd - The North Koreans are likely seeing this as an opportunity to get rid of their least reliable ammo for a profit. The Egyptian military did the same thing to the US when the US was buying up Soviet-made ammo to supply the mujahideen in Afghanistan in the 1980s.