1. EU Parliament voted in favor of deporting illegal migrants to "return hubs" outside the European Union yesterday.
Now.....don't get excited....they didn't say the location of the hubs.
I would imagine they will advertise the situation, and five to ten countries will say....'lets-make-a-deal'. Deal-period? It'll take three years minimum to rig up the situation, and you (the EU) would have to pay some amount (guessing 100k Euro) for each person.
On the positive side....if ever made to work....most of AfD's numbers would diminish.
For the guys on the deportation list? Well....your upscale German lifestyle days....has a end coming...eventually.
2. WELT polling....in some areas of Bavarian (the more wealthy districts)....AfD is polling locally at 57-percent. Rest of the state....back down in the 10-to-15 percent range. CSU is having an image problem.
3. Bundestag passes law....gas prices at stations can ONLY change once per day. Personal opinion....this law probably will only last 12 months...before being dissolved.
4. WELT piece....by Gunnar Schupelius...."Do ARD and ZDF even take seriously what is happening here in Germany?".
Analysis of the public TV duo....with economic news. Broad failing grade given....networks have a host of experts without real attention/focus on the nation itself.
5. For about 10 years....there's this married couple (the Allgäu region) who are alleged to have stolen coins from parking meters. Amount? Roughly 1.9-million Euro...
Local public prosecutor's office are charging the two.
The odd part of the story....there's a belief that they stole half-a-million Euro prior to 2015....but the prosecution can't charge on that.
I'm just trying to imagine....walking into a bank weekly....with 2,000 Euro in coins, it's going to be hard to explain this.
6. Retailers sent a harsh letter to the head of the Finance for the German gov't....saying upping the VAT (sales tax) from 19-to-21-percent is going to harm the economy.
7. German mayor gave a talk and uttered 'ghost-road'....I had to go and look it up.
"Ghost-road" (German: Geisterstraße or Geisterautobahn) in Germany refers to an abandoned, disused, or overgrown road/highway that has been left to decay and is often reclaimed by nature.
His use? He suggests that this is a normal practice of the gov't to deliver something, and it's never working as originally advertised.
8. Survey done (N-24).....suggests that German workers, when under pressure, will perform to show increased productivity....but it's mostly 'staged' (fake).
9. N-TV piece: Ukraine apparently paying drone-pilots 'bonuses' per each Russian wounded, and killed. You have to show video-evidence.
10. HR item: 14,000 deer/car accidents are reported in Germany yearly.
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