1. Here in Wiesbaden.....one of the bigger department stores in the mid-town area shut-down three years ago. It's been empty ever since.
This week.....IKEA said it'd be interested in approximately half of the structure (not the whole thing).
There is a IKEA in the region (say 6 miles away). I think mainly what they want....is display areas for the public to browse, and order online.
2. Bergdorf is this small Alpine village in the far south of Germany. The village (79 residents) has gotten pretty concerned and frustrated....the state is going to set up a refugee home (45 folks). Petition being set up and village is going to a lawsuit to prevent the 'home'.
3. I read through a long piece....these 'kids' associated with Fridays For The Future....are bothered by the coalition agreement with the SPD and CDU-CSU.
4. “Goodbye Germany” star Danni Büchner (age 47) has posed naked for Playboy. If the name doesn't ring a bell....she was the wife of 'Jens' (who passed away five years ago).
5. Marcus Söder (CSU 'boss'), has hinted he might be the Foreign Ministry 'boss' in the new government.
6. One item being still discussed by the new coalition....attempting to get a 2nd opinion by a doctor....on a serious condition....might be more difficult. It just looks like you would have a fee attached....likely paying at least half the cost yourself.
7. It is the beginning of the asparagus season, with asparagus prices are high. The price per kilo for first-class asparagus starts at around €15.
8. Why is coffee prices up in Germany (40-percent)? Mostly over a drought in Central/South America.
9. Old German path to citizenship was a five-year period....then evolved into three years, and now via new coalition....back to five years.
10. Social fraud in Germany? Well...the National Association of Statutory Health Insurance Funds (GKV) says there are ways that organized social security fraud is being conducted by criminal networks. A lack of information sharing is to blame.
11. N-24 item: two-thirds of Germans in a new poll indicate that with the new coalition.....they really DON'T expect any significant change....just more of the same. In this respect....Merz is continuing to lose points
12. The German company Jack Wolfskin....owned for 6 years by an American company....was sold this week to a Chinese clothing company.
13. For 2024....85 Germans died in Austria while on vacation.
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