1. WELT piece from yesterday......around 1,600 Ukrainian doctors have entered Germany since day one of the war and applied for doctor-status within Germany....very small percentage accepted so far. Lot of questions coming up presently....with a shortage of doctors in Germany....you'd think that the 16 states and federal gov't would have figured out a easier way to approve the status.
2. Opinion piece in WELT....by Felix Kuehn...makes for interesting reading. He notes...living in Germany presently...means you need a daily dose of tranquilizers....because of the economy, stress, traffic, crime, climate change, etc.
He has a point....it's different than in the 1980s. If you sat down with most working-class Germans today....they all have three or four 'whines' which concern them, and just chugging down a beer no longer relieves the stress.
3. Hell of a lot of flood damage in NW Hessen, from Friday's storm.
4. African-swine flu noted just south of Frankfurt now.
5. I watched a environmental piece off N-TV news yesterday....topic? Zero interest in climate protection now noted in German society, with a fair number seeing E-cars "as an elite product for comfort ecologists."
I'd say in the fall of 2023....E-car purchases peaked out. This is likely to be discussed a good bit as the fall 2025 election process opens up. This Germany and EU mandate? It's now a problem.
6. Great opinion piece found in WELT this AM....written by Olaf Gersemann. Topic? Germany needs a new plan-B for industry.
He writes a great introduction....how the country is being currently deindustrialized. So he talks about the current Plan B....which is some massive 'green' transformation, which does not seem to be working.
He has a point, but so far...none of the political parties have found any 'magic' to reestablish industry in Germany.
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