1. Tuesday...the SPD Party votes on the coalition agreement. I will say this.....the youth element of the party is unhappy and likely voting against it. But it ought to still pass, with 70-to-80 percent approval.
CDU-CSU? Well....it's come out that Merz doesn't want a membership up-or-down vote. At best, there's to be a executive committee vote. Satisfying folks? No....there's a challenge going on, and I suspect that at least a quarter of CDU-CSU membership want a say.
Interesting live interview last night with a hour-long session of Q-an-A. Merz said one impressive thing....'don't make promises you can't keep'. Whether he can keep that....unknown.
2. ARD TV news (public TV)....did a piece over threat worries....with civil defense now becoming MORE important. So the topic of tent cities came up, and how in disasters or war....they aren't really ready for the task at hand. Might be several years before they reach a good point.
3. German cops are now using cameras to monitor if you are using a cellphone while driving. Fine? 100 Euro.
Cops indicate they are in a test phase.
4. Front page story on Focus....The EU went out and paid NGOs to lobby for electric cars and to get country-by-country influenced votes.
People to be disturbed by this? Well...if this were just a million Euro.....no one would likely get peeved. If you were talking about 30-odd million Euro....yeah, there's likely to be questions.
5. Merz says.....under his 'watch'....he wants an asylum limit of 100,000 a year.
6. After a knife attack on the Berlin subway....the Berlin-City Interior Senator wants to expand knife-free zones. It means more frisking and more risks to the police.
I'll be honest.....if you view news sources across the nation....there's probably 20-odd knife situations daily now.
7. Zelensky of Ukraine has made a blunt comment that Trump needs to see first-hand (in-person) the damage to Ukraine.....so he opens up the funding. Odds of this? Zero.
8. All this talk of a minimum wage of 15 Euro? Well....the left-element of the SPD Party says this has to be agreed to by the CDU-CSU....or they will vote the coalition down. 12.82 was established on 1 January 2025....as the new minimum wage. My humble guess.....the CDU-CSU will agree to a 15 Euro situation.....in the 2nd half of 2026.
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