The routine public knife attacks are particularly irksome.
Germany news: Most Germans see decline in public manners – Most Germans think people’s manners are getting worse, although most rate themselves as polite.
German public manners going to pot
Category Archives: Hurt Feelings
Gas prices are always higher here
It’s the taxation, stupid.
Germany news: Gas price hike higher than other EU countries – Fueled by the Middle East war, German petrol prices have risen more sharply than in neighboring EU countries.
Germans would never meddle in Hungary’s election process
It’s common knowledge that they simply ADORE Viktor Orbán and would never even think of doing or saying anything to discredit him.
Germany accuses JD Vance of hypocrisy over claim that EU meddled in Hungary’s election – Government spokesperson remarks that the U.S. vice president may himself be guilty of interfering in the vote.
Go West, young man!
Or East, North or South. You too, young woman.
Just get out of Germany.
One in five young Germans plan to leave the country – A recent study shows that as many as one in five Germans between the ages of 14 and 29 are actively thinking about moving to another country — and 40% plan to do so in the long term.
Think life is great in Germany? Many of the country’s young people disagree. A growing number of Germans aged between 14-29 say they are actively planning to leave their homeland. In the recent study called “Jugend in Deutschland” or “Youth in Germany,” some 21% of young Germans surveyed say they are actively planning to leave Germany to find a better life. As many as 41% say they could imagine moving abroad in the longer term.
Why Germany’s anti-AfD firewall is crumbling?
Because the party that needs it as life insurance (the SPD) has fallen into the abyss.
You don’t need life insurance anymore when you’re already dead.
Germany’s so-called “firewall” was designed to prevent the resurgence of antidemocratic ideology and has shaped German politics for decades. Now, mounting voter support for the far-right AfD is exposing cracks.
German of the day: Totgesagte leben länger
That means those declared dead live longer, or there’s life in the old dog yet.
At least I hope so, in this case. There aren’t many political parties in Germany that dare to call for freedom of choice – or freedom itself.
Germany’s pro-business liberals risk death blow in regional vote – The Free Democratic Party has played a key role in German politics for most of the postwar era, but a poor result in a state vote on Sunday could mean its demise.
Germany’s pro-business Free Democrats, on the brink of political extinction, face a make-or-break state vote this Sunday that party leaders believe may well be their last chance to claw back relevance.
Leaders of the fiscally conservative Free Democratic Party (FDP) — which was part of Germany’s previous, ill-fated coalition government under former Chancellor Olaf Scholz — have long pinned their hopes for a national revival on this Sunday’s election in the southwestern state of Baden-Württemberg, traditionally one of the party’s strongholds.
Young Germans are volunteering to fight for their country!
Just joking.
German high school students protest against military service – Tens of thousands of high school students took to the streets of cities all over the country to protest against the reintroduction of military service. Many people believe that conscription is inevitable.
Young people gathered in Berlin’s central Potsdamer Square on Thursday and marched through the German capital to protest against the government’s plans to reintroduce military service. While the police counted around 3,000 participants, organizers claimed there were 6,000 demonstrators in Berlin and 50,000 in more than 130 towns and cities across Germany.
“I don’t think I’ll be dying for my friends, relatives or acquaintances, in the worst-case scenario,” 17-year-old Shmuel Schatz, spokesperson for the School Strike Committee, told DW’s Gasia Ohanes. “Rather, in the end, only for those who are put into the trenches for the interests of large corporations like Rheinmetall, ThyssenKrupp, and others, so they can line their pockets at the expense of war.”
Tesla to leave Germany
Soon.
Union tries to seize control of works council at Tesla’s German factory – Lawsuits and slander claims fly in IG Metall’s battle with Elon Musk over employment rights and conditions.
Europe’s largest trade union is trying to gain control of the works council at Elon Musk’s Tesla gigafactory near Berlin, in an industrial relations showdown marked by lawsuits and mutual accusations of slander.
The works council, an elected body of employees that negotiates everything from working hours to pay deals with a company’s management, is considered an entrenched aspect of the German corporate world, particularly in the car industry.
But it was a bone of contention at the Tesla plant in Grünheide, about 20 miles (30km) south-east of Berlin, even before the gates opened almost four years ago.
Their days were gnome-bered
Busted.
Gnome-body is above the law.
German customs net ketamine cache in golden garden gnomes – X-ray anomalies helped German customs officials crack a daring ketamine smuggling operation. A bumper haul of the drug was found stuffed inside a troop of fancily decorated outdoor figurines at Cologne/Bonn Airport.
A True German Crisis
The Iran conflict is ruining German vacation plans!
Call in the Germany military – to get German vactioners out.
Iran war: Tens of thousands of German travelers stranded – German tour operators say at least 30,000 customers have been left without travel options after thousands of flights were canceled across the Middle East because of the US-Israel war with Iran.
Tens of thousands of people on trips organized by German travel agencies have been affected by US-Israel war with Iran, a leading trade group said on Monday.
Figures from the German Travel Association suggest that some 30,000 tourists are unable to fly home amid the hostilities, which have prompted several countries in the region to close their airspace, while many airlines have put flights into and out of the crisis area on hold.
German flagship carrier Lufthansa is among those airlines. The company said that airspace over Israel, Iran, Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain and the Saudi airport of Dammam will not be used by Lufthansa and its subsidiaries until at least March 8. United Arab Emirates airspace will be avoided until March 4.
Observing Hermann 