1. Interesting shift on medical care cost in Germany. From Zeit.
To resolve the deficit in public health insurance companies, Lauterbach (the Minister of Health) says that homeopathy should no longer be funded.
This alternative method of healthcare....has generally been around since the late 1700s. I would suggest that about 10-percent of German has some belief in it. Scientifically speaking.....the problem is....you can't establish any facts to say it works, or it doesn't work.
I would imagine over the next year....a number of cost cuts will be generated.
2. Farmer demonstration in Frankfurt. Police report around 1,500 tractors/trucks.
3. Interesting poll by N-TV....three state elections slated for eastern Germany in the fall. Saxony, Brandenburg, and Thuringia.
Numbers show clear wins for AfD (far-right) Party. New BWS Party....currently does not show 5-percent or more.....meaning no seats, if this comes true.
4. RTL (commercial German TV) ran a 90-minute news piece....talking about why Germany has so many 'woes' going on. Title: “Exposed - What's going wrong in Germany?”.
Discussion? It basically talks over the shortage of craftsman and apprentice folks, bureaucracy within the federal government agenda, a lack of rules/enforcement and a decaying national infrastructure.
The one theme driven throughout the piece (I was kinda surprised)....Germany used to be a place where problem-solvers ran the show and fixed things. The problem-solvers seem to have gone the way of the dinosaurs.
The key theme that struck me? If you have some problem around house....like a leaking roof, electrical issues or a plumbing problem.....you could be talking about four to eight weeks to get a German craftsman out for a 1-hour problem. Don't even bring up a telephone or line issue....with those guys, it might be two months before they show up.
If you want 14 or 15 year old German kids to sign up for apprentice training....you literally need a 'coach' who pushes the kid daily to develop mature behavior, and want to achieve craftsmanship-status in three years.
5. Tegal Airport....one of the three big airports of Berlin back in the 'glory days' (before 2000)....had this one unique feature....no subway connection brought people into or out of the airport. It was a bus-only situation.
I noticed this week (course, Tegal is on the list to be fully closed and torn down)....that the city finally approved a tram-situation....to bring people up to the edge of the old airport. Schedule? Nothing to say it'll be done in 2025 or 2026.
Even up to 2019....it was still regarded as the 4th biggest airport of Germany....right before closure.
What is to happen with Tegal? Mostly still unknown.
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