FDP leader Christian Lindner has rejected any discussion about a return to conscription. "For the FDP, conscription is not at all up for debate. This is a ghost discussion. All power must be concentrated on strengthening the Bundeswehr as a highly professional army," said Lindner of the German Press Agency. The young generation also “lost so much through the pandemic that there should be no speculation about a new compulsory service”. Lindner also referred to the shortage of skilled workers...
Status: 01/27/2023 10:04 a.m The man who attacked other passengers with a knife on a regional train from Kiel to Hamburg on Wednesday is now in custody. A 17-year-old and her 19-year-old friend died in the act. Five other people were injured, some of them critically. On Thursday afternoon, the 33-year-old Ibrahim A. was brought before the magistrate at the Itzehoe district court (Steinburg district). "We are conducting proceedings on two counts of insidious murder and four counts of attempted...
The German Weather Service (DWD) warns of black ice for the area of the state capital Munich on Friday morning. The warning initially applies until 6 p.m. in the evening. The strongest is to be expected with smoothness until 9 a.m.The DWD advises avoiding spending time outdoors. In addition, severe disruptions to traffic are to be expected. The DWD advises "adapting behavior on the road". Light drizzle is currently exacerbating the situation.Slippery roads can also be expected in other areas...
Ms Pepper, to whom one would probably have to say "the robots", looks, nods and spreads her arms on the top floor of the district administration department (KVR). This is how the white artificial figure, a good one meter tall, greets the landlady Hanna Sammüller-Gradl, the IT officer Laura Dornheim (both Green) and Mayor Dieter Reiter (SPD). Perhaps their sweeping gestures with their arms are so friendly because the three announce that they want to advance Pepper's digital world in...
After a short winter break, the construction site of the wind farm in the bay of Saint-Brieuc (Côtes-d'Armor) will start again with renewed vigor in the coming days. With a capacity of 496 megawatts, this park of 62 wind turbines located at sea will be commissioned "in December 2023", confirmed Wednesday Ailes Marines, a subsidiary of the Spanish giant Iberdrola, which won the call for tenders in 2012.In the bay of Saint-Brieuc, where the tension has subsided, the future wind...
In some districts of Hamburg, it has long been possible to use an app to order something that should be commonplace for millions of people in Germany in a few years: a local transport shuttle that picks up passengers at home or at a bus stop. In this way, the passengers of the HVV transport association can be taken to their destination, for example to the nearest train station, and not at the cost of a taxi, but at a...
digitalization Tender: Federal Network Agency is looking for a new fax service provider The Federal Network Agency has apparently not yet fully achieved digitization. The authority is looking for a new fax service provider for the coming years. © CHROMORANGE / Imago Images The Federal Network Agency is looking for a new service provider for sending faxes. Interested parties have until February 15 to submit their offer – not in writing, but only electronically. The Federal Network Agency is actually...
Netflix announces a new payment model. Several households should no longer be able to share one user account free of charge in the future. source site
Public service Unions combative before collective bargaining Ulrich Silberbach is the federal chairman of the dbb civil servants' association. photo © Christophe Gateau/dpa They look after children and the sick, pay housing benefit or take away the rubbish - employees of the public sector. From now on, it's about her income. Widespread strikes are possible. Unions are pugnacious just ahead of collective bargaining for the public sector. "The employees want to see action," said the chairman of the civil servants'...
Educators, garbage workers and others in the state may soon go on strike to earn 10.5 percent more. Despite inflation, that's too much to ask. In the end, the union is damaging its most important concern.comment by Alexander HagelukenThe Germans may face difficult weeks. There could be widespread strikes in the public sector. Then garbage collectors stop their indispensable work, educators in day care centers, staff in hospitals. And all this to enforce a double-digit wage demand. There is some...
