Saturday, April 12, 2025

12 April 2025: Five MORE German News Stories

 1.  Another machete story.  Out of  Linden (eastern Germany)...a special police task force was required to overpowered a guy who'd been running through the town with a machete.  Somewhere in the midst of this arrest....a police dog was required (getting injured himself), and the machete guy got a number of dog bites in return.

2.  On that CSU 'promise' in the campaign about bringing back nuke-power?  Not a word mentioned in the coalition agreement.

3. CSU gets 3 ministries in the new coalition gov't: Interior, Space and Agriculture.  The SPD Party: the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Defense (Boris Pistorius likely gets the seat), Justice, Labor/Social Affairs, Environment/Climate, Economic Cooperation, and Housing/Construction. Remainder  go to the CDU.

The 'job' that matters?  Ministry of Finance.  

4.  This discussion of the 15 Euro per hour minimum wage?  Well....it's not yet in the coalition agreement.  Just the way it looks....it won't happen in 2025....probably a 2026 event.

5.  That machete attack guy (Berlin-Reinickendorf) from Wednesday morning?  Beaten by five guys....the public prosecutor's office now says they have issued arrest warrants for two people on charges of manslaughter.

What will matter is if there is a security-video of the incident, and if the machete guy was laying on the ground, while still getting beaten.

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