Thursday, April 17, 2025

17 April 2025: Three German News Stories

 1.  New coalition will implement a mandatory disaster-insurance.

Deal?  All residential buildings must be insured against heavy rain, flooding, and other natural disasters (earthquakes, etc).

Cost?  Some rough estimates....if you had a building with four apartments....they estimate it'll run 1,600 Euro a year....to be split among the four tenets.  Smaller house structure...probably in the 300 to 400 Euro range.

Upsetting folks? You will have to find another 30 Euro per month....to fix your budget issue.  

2. BSW Party having a power-struggle over party-boss.

3. Anniversary of the end of the World War II going on throughout Germany.  Bundestag decided to exclude Russian ambassador from commemoration events. 80th year.

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