It cannot be that so many people receive citizen's money at the expense of taxpayers, even though they could go to work. The AfD labor market politician René Springer said: "It cannot be that so many people receive citizen's money at the expense of taxpayers, even though they could go to work." #Bürgergeld #Langzeitarbeitslosigkeit #AfD (translated)
The famous bell tower by Giotto in Florence is being comprehensively renovated for the first time, with the work on the 86-meter-high structure expected to last around five years and cost more than seven million euros, which will be fully covered by the cathedral's construction office Opera di Santa Maria del Fiore. #Florenz #Giotto #Restaurierung (translated)
Alex reported that a colleague bought Velux windows, a heat pump, drywall, and screed in Poland for the renovation of his house because the prices in Germany were too high for him. The Velux windows cost about half there; even the product description was in German. Alex asked why identical products were significantly more expensive in this country and wrote that the savings from shopping in the neighboring country raised questions about what was going wrong in Germany. He believed that if this development continued, even a working person here would soon be unable to afford anything. #Bauprojekte #PreiseVergleichen #Hausbau (translated)
The Georg-Stefan-Troller Prize was awarded for the first time in Frankfurt to honor outstanding works that provide deeper insights into Jewish life, while the winners emphasized that Jewish life goes far beyond the history of persecution and exclusion. #GeorgStefanTrollerPreis #JüdischesLeben #Journalismus (translated)
Bayer Leverkusen has earned ten points in the last five games and shows offensive potential, but must work on mental stability and defense to remain at the top permanently. #BayerLeverkusen #Bundesliga #ChampionsLeague (translated)
More and more teachers at AHS and vocational schools are working part-time, with the part-time rate reaching 56 percent there, while only 40 percent are employed part-time at compulsory schools. #Teilzeitlehrer #Bildungspolitik #BefristeteVerträge (translated)
In China, the long national holidays often lead to crowded traffic hubs and price increases, while many people complain that they have to work to create these extended breaks on weekends. #NationalDay #ChinaHolidays #TravelComplaints (translated)
Mario Lochner advocated for higher taxes on cigarettes, alcohol, and sugar to reduce their consumption. Addressing Mr. Merz, he wrote that if he wanted people to work more, a tax could be abolished for that purpose. #Steuerpolitik #Gesundheit #Rauchen (translated)
Baha wrote that at some point, married people with children who worked full-time, owned property, provided for themselves privately, engaged in civic politics voluntarily, and participated in sports could be considered right-wing radical. #Gesellschaft #Politik #Familie (translated)
Cem Özdemir, the Minister-President of Baden-Württemberg, calls on the federal government to overcome its internal disagreements and work together in a goal-oriented manner, but warns that time is pressing for real reforms. #Özdemir #Bundesregierung #Demokratie (translated)
The author wrote that children with a migration background, whom he referred to as disadvantaged, demonstrated for better school conditions in Belgium and devastated city centers while destroying and looting shops. He mentioned Liège as an example. He then began to mention a sushi shop but stopped abruptly mid-sentence. #Schülerproteste #Bildung #Migration #BE (translated)
The author wrote that the EU has paid an additional 100 billion euros for oil and gas imports since the beginning of the Gulf conflict. EU Commissioner Jørgensen demands energy "Made in Europe," also from small modular reactors. EmeraldHorizonX is working on this project in Austria, it said. https://t.co/aU2tdFQZer #Energie #EU #Nachhaltigkeit #AT #EU (translated)
In the end, one must go out and speak with one voice and stand by the agreements. Baden-Württemberg's Minister-President Cem Özdemir has urged the black-red federal government to pull together more strongly and work in a goal-oriented manner. #Koalition #CDU #Politik (translated)
"We are working hard to restore the balance in trade relations between the EU and China." According to Šefčovič, it is crucial that this time the discussions will also yield concrete results. #Handelsstreit #EUChina #Hybridfahrzeuge (translated)
A 17-year-old Romanian girl who came to Vienna to work as a babysitter was lured into a brothel by a couple with false promises, where she received no payment, and now the defendants are on trial for human trafficking and pimping. #Menschenhandel #Zwangsprostitution #Wien (translated)
The slowdown in progress on this work is absolutely unacceptable, and those responsible in the Ministry of Infrastructure as well as in the regional administrations bear personal responsibility for it," the President stated. #UkrainischerKrieg #RussischeAggression #Stromversorgung (translated)
Donald Trump distances himself from his advisors Chris LaCivita and James Blair after it was reported that they supported Milorad Dodik in the Republika Srpska, stating that he has no idea who else they work for. #BosnienUndHerzegowina #Trump #RepublikaSrpska (translated)
Simon Betschinger referred to a WELT report about the dispute regarding the direction of the CDU, in which Vice-Chairperson Prien had demanded a change in course. He wrote that the participants did not understand that for him social policy meant taking less money from the working population. #CDU #SozialePolitik #Kurswechsel (translated)
In Kronstorf, 220 local companies are working on the construction of the new Google data center. (translated)
A research team from the University of Innsbruck has found that AI systems operate more energy-efficiently when they delete information, even if that data could improve their predictions. #KünstlicheIntelligenz #Energieeffizienz #Vergessen (translated)
