The city wants to introduce a new lodging tax. Tourists and business people should pay the fee from September 1, 2023 if possible. The combing department hopes to earn between 40 and 60 million euros per year. This would be offset by one to two million for the bureaucratic effort. This is what it says in the draft resolution for a city council meeting of the finance committee on November 29th.Hotels, guesthouses and campsites, but also private individuals who rent...
Status: 09.11.2022 11:12 a.m Twitter plans to soon mark certain profiles as "official": with a gray tick on a white background. The blue tick doll is reserved for subscription customers. Whether the new model will bring in more money is questionable. The US short message service Twitter wants to introduce two different types of verification symbols: one for subscription customers and one for already verified accounts of celebrities and companies. According to the plans, the well-known white tick on a...
A blood alcohol offense or even half-days without hunting in certain regions. These are the main avenues on which the government is working, as part of its "roadmap to improve and guarantee hunting safety". “There is currently no framework concerning blood alcohol levels when hunting, we want to change that,” said Secretary of State for Ecology Bérangère Couillard during a trip to the Marne. “The practice of hunting involves a weapon, as with a car, it is incompatible with a...
Electricity was restored on Tuesday evening at the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant, nearly eighteen hours after an automatic shutdown, the third in ten days, said Rafael Grossi, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).Russia prepares to evacuate population from Kherson (South), because of the counter-offensive of kyiv, announced Tuesday the commander of the Russian forces in Ukraine, the general Sergueï Sourovikine. Ukrainian fire targeting civilian infrastructure "create a direct threat to the lives of the inhabitants"did he declare.“The...
Stricter hand luggage guidelines Tiktok video revealed: Ryanair could introduce baggage scam penalties Passengers stand at the Ryanair counter. If you want to smuggle luggage onto the plane in the future, you could be fined for it. © dpa | Clara Margais / Picture Alliance Putting several clothes on top of each other or stowing clothes in a pillowcase: There are various tricks for smuggling extra hand luggage onto the plane. However, Ryanair could introduce penalties for luggage tricks in...
Status: 09/23/2022 1:02 p.m Spain is also suffering from high inflation. The government wants to enact a tax on the wealthy to relieve the burden on citizens - it should affect "one percent of the population", according to Finance Minister Montero. The amount of the tax is still unclear. Spain's left-wing government wants to cushion the burden of high inflation on broad sections of the population with a time-limited tax on the wealthy. "When we talk about the rich, then...
"More relief, more money": In an interview with the star Family Minister Lisa Paus talks about her plans to introduce basic child security in Germany. Ms. Paus, every fifth child in Germany is considered poor – is that number exaggerated?No, this is calculated statistically. I've lived in areas of Berlin where every third child grows up in poverty. When my son, now 13, started school, I imagined it: every third child in his class! What does that mean for the...
The people of Munich are now being relieved of the heating costs with a fund for the needy and an energy saving bonus for everyone. This was announced by the Greens and SPD on Tuesday. This plan had existed for a long time, but the city association of the SPD opposed the Green Party's premium. One does not want a "cornucopia" from which villa owners could also benefit, said city councilor and SPD chairman Christian Köning.After the agreement in the...
opinion Against longer term Extend nuclear power and introduce a speed limit? This pseudo-compromise would be utter nonsense A possible speed limit on German autobahns has been discussed for decades © Patrick Seeger / DPA 07/18/2022, 2:47 p.m 2 min reading time It's like in marriage: nonsense has charm - but in the end (at least) one pays more. This text is part of a pros and cons on the question of whether Germany should extend the lifetime of nuclear...
Steak in Germany - since when? Dispute in the private sphere - when did restaurants in Germany have steaks on their menus? For the "broad masses"? I can't believe this was already the case in the mid 50's, probably in the 60's at the earliest. Or even later? Söder's constant criticism of the sister party Is Söder's strategy of constantly attacking the sister party and Laschet in the election campaign really that clever? Ultimately, he also harms his own people...
