1. I put my summer tires on yesterday, for the Audi TT. Earliest that I've ever put them on, but there's been zero snow since early December....even zero flurries. On moderate conditions? Just crazy.
Odd weather report last night? The ARD folks put up the temperature map for Saturday, with a vast part of Germany getting 18 to 20 C (64 to 68 F)....color theme for the chart? BRIGHT RED for 20 C region, which I just laughed over how they depicted the color business. Even with 20 C....if you walk around, one out of ten Germans will be wearing a full-up winter 'parka'.
2. WELT did a survey....hostility brewing in Germany over the next rise in the TV-media tax....going up to 18.94 Euro a month (per home).
Vast amount of Germans want 'reform' of ARD/ZDF (public TV). Just on the suggestion of merging ARD/ZDF into one? Overwhelming number of people say 'do it'.
Whether the public TV folks realize it or not....this topic has become a top ten subject for the 2025 national election. I would suspect that one of the two....will be losing their news staff.
3. The welfare cost in Germany (Burger-geld)? Well....it's anticipated that in 2024....it'll rise to 40-billion Euro. CDU-CSU parties are planning the 2025 election topics to include reform of welfare.
4. DAK health insurance folks....talking of a fair sized increase in policies in 2024...because of inflation.
5. Starting 1 April....next round of Russian draft of conscripts starts....to be minimum of 100,000 folks drafted. Some promise made that they won't be sent to the Ukraine, but no one really believes that.
6. List of accepted parties for the EU election (in May) approved. 'Last Generation' activists got their environmental group listed.
Oddest of the 40-odd parties? The 'V-Partei3', known officially as V-Partei³. Their theme? Change, Vegetarians and Vegans.....they support animal rights as well.
If you look at the 40-listing....at least twenty of them will get less than 5,000 votes each.
The Last Generation odds? Well....here's the thing....the age for voting has been set in the EU election....to 16. So if you asked me on 'kids' voting, I might imagine that eighty percent of them will likely show up and the overwhelming number will vote 'Last Generation'....so they might actually get 5-percent of the vote.
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