1. Over the past 2 or 3 months....if you pay attention to German news....a lot of demonstrations have started up in vacation 'points' of Spain.....wanting mass tourism limited in some way (particularly in Mallorca).
The aim? Its going at hotels and cruise ships.
Odds of what might happen? It's possible that the cruise lines could be given a limit, and maybe one-third of them could be diverted elsewhere (probably the coastline of Spain).
But with hotels denying guests? That's their bread-and-butter.
The protest folks may end up carving off 10-percent of the guests....but they'd also see cuts in commerce.
Germans affected? Eventually, I see Spain, Greece an Romania taking a fair chunk of tourism.
2. N-TV ran a piece where the police are suggesting recruitment of Germans by Russia.....may have started up....to sabotage German commerce....without the Germans really grasping they'd be doing this for Putin's gov't.
Any truth to the matter? So far...no. It's mostly speculation.
3. ZF parts supplier in Germany (for cars)....cutting 14,000 positions next four years. Yeah, it's a big deal.
4. I sat and watched a N-TV news piece....trying to convince Germans that plain tap water is just as good as bottled water. If you tried this 'chatter' on 100 Germans....I doubt if it'd work on 98-percent. My wife's premium bottled-water bill per each month? Near forty Euro.
5. WELT this AM wrote up a pretty strong piece....German skepticism over E-cars. Presently, the gov't is simply looking the other way. At some point....probably leading up to the fed-election in the fall of 2025....this might be a top-five discussion topic.
6. Germany talking about a application for the 2040 Olympics. How they'd pay for it? Some people have gone critical and said 'NO'.
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