1. Merz met yesterday with Syrian President. Agreement.....over 4 years....around 800k of the 1.2-million Syrians in Germany to 'return' home.
Up front....if you were Syrian and on a deportation list....you go shortly (at least that's the Merz understanding).
If you asked me....of the 1.2-million, roughly half have solid jobs, and marginal interest in returning. So I'm not buying into the 800k number.
Also of interest....Greens/SPD went highly negative on this announcement.
2. Digital rape/violence case in Spain against Ulman? Dumped....by Spanish prosecutor. German case is the only avenue possible at this point.
Odd way of wording by the Spanish prosecutor....couldn't find a competent standing....even though it occurred in his/her local district.
3. Center of Hamburg....cops called.....local gal bit (in the face) by wolf. Cops cornered the wolf.....malnourished and thin. Being fed now, and will be released into a wooded area later.
4. Spain has now blocked US military aircraft from its airspace and denied access to the Rota and Morón bases over the Iran conflict.
So....I'll just predict....about a month or two after Iran's mess is settled....the two bases are permanently vacated by the US....declared of no use. Probably the beginning of several US installations 'gone'.
5. N-TV ran a German grid story.....bottlenecks are a serious issue now.....grid is apparently a decade behind on infrastructure renovation.
6. Couple of European countries having a gas-shortage....limiting customers to 30 liters of fuel per day. Hasn't been brought up in Germany...yet.
7. The Green Environment Minister of Rhineland-Palatinate praises "swarm power plants" in the Rhine as a solution to the energy transition problem.
Basically....you'd anchor these and as the river moved.....blades on the swarms would turn to generate power.
Key issue? Well.....you'd need a massive swarm of these units to get any real production.
8. 14-year-old German kid stabbed in front of his school in Hamburg Flottbek.
9. German inflation jumped in March to 2.7-percent from 1.9-percent previously.
10. From Sunday night....the ARD public forum-talk show "Caren Miosga"..... achieved the lowest ratings since September 1, 2025.
Topic for the show? Collien Fernandes.
Approximately 2.21 million viewers watched the episode, in which Fernandes gave a talk of her accusations against her ex-husband Christian Ulmen.
Among the total audience, the market share of the current Miosga episode was 10.8 and almost 20 percentage points lower than that of the previous show...."Polizeiruf 110." Among 14- to 49-year-olds, only 330,000 Germans watched the show.
To be honest....I spent the evening watching 'Lets Dance' and as it concluded....went to a cooking show. So I can't comment on the effect of the show.
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