1. Fair amount of 'Grey Wolves' chatter yesterday. If you aren't familiar with them....it's a right-wing element of Turks....mostly drawn to Erdogan's strategies. German gov't now says around 12,000 of these 'extremists' exist in Germany. Some suggestion (whether factual or not), that they have infiltrated into city/state government offices.
2. Saturday to Monday....Discover Airlines (son of Lufthansa)....on strike. A low-budget vacation airline.
3. Court in Berlin (city court) has come out and said 'holiday' apartment rental (where you had an extra apartment or two to rent)....is now legal (again). City government had attempted to say 'no'.....that you couldn't rent out apartments day to day.
4. It's one of those odd commerce developments over the past decade in Germany....Turkish-run shisha pubs/bars. Even around Wiesbaden, I'd take a guess that a dozen (295k population) are operating.
So the shisha industry is now developing a worry about business. The German government after literally hundreds of 'raids'/audits....has come to realize that unlicensed/untaxed tobacco is being brought into the country. So they (the gov't) wants strict packaging regulations. Also, like you'd expect....they are now talking about another tax on water pipe tobacco operations.
So the 'industry' is up in arms....'its not fair' being uttered.
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