Category: Leaders

Mayor peter kornell described the 21.6 million euro budget package, which the city council passed on monday with only one vote against (fred mahler), as a "sound working basis". With a view to expensive investments in the future and further thrifty revenues, kornell presented an idea that could relieve the city’s finances – a special-purpose association of the counties of kitzingen, wurzburg and schweinfurt to run the open-air swimming pool.

There are good reasons for the advance: the clear facility will burden the budget for the coming years with over six million euros, the general renovation of the indoor pool with up to six million euros is pending, and when the volkach-gaibach bypass comes along with a good three million euros, things will get tight.

City alone overwhelmed

According to kornell, the city will reach its "financial limits" when only the dilapidated pool heads at the open-air pool are renovated for one million euros. The rest of the renovation, up to two million euros, volkach could not afford. The city is already having a hard enough time balancing a deficit of up to 300,000 euros every year. The special-purpose association, in which kornell wants to bring the district of kitzingen and the neighboring districts on board, could save the day. In the case of a special-purpose association that operates the pool as a "local recreation facility" for the wider area, the financing could be placed on "broader shoulders". With such a project of an "inter-municipal cooperation" the chance of such demand means is rough, "which a single municipality does not get at all."

The exemption from contributions would save parents an average of up to 160 euros a month and 1,900 euros a year, according to the motion for the party meeting. The goal in the medium term is tuition-free education from kindergarten to university.

The exemption from contributions should guarantee that mothers in particular can return to work more quickly. The small party conference will also see the first public appearance of gertrud steinbruck, wife of SPD chancellor candidate peerc steinbruck. The grammar school teacher and the ex-finance minister talk to host bettina bottinger about reconciling family and career.

The freedom from kita contributions had already been generally decided in the election program. In the motion, the SPD emphasizes: "we want to invest in the expansion, operation and quality of daycare centers and schools, especially in all-day facilities.

More than 20 years after the war in kosovo, kosovan president hashim thaci’s past has caught up with him.

The former commander of the underground KLA resigned from office after learning that the kosovo special tribunal in the hague had upheld an indictment against him for alleged war crimes. His duties were taken over by parliamentary president vjosa osmani of the ruling LDK (democratic league of kosovo) party.

"In order to protect the integrity of the state, i am resigning today," thaci said at a press conference in the capital pristina. He added that he felt proud of the responsibility he had borne. He then went to the headquarters of the EU justice mission eulex to arrange his transfer to the tribunal in the hague.

In a poll, the SPD has fallen behind the afd to third place in the polls. According to the insa opinion research institute, it lost half a percentage point to 16 percent, while the afd improved by half a point to 17 percent.

Flensburg mayor simone lange, who ran against andrea nahles for SPD leader in the spring, described the development as painful but predictable.

The union remains the strongest party with 28.5 percent and also a half-point gain. The greens remained at 13.5 percent. The FDP ranked at 9.5 percent (minus 0.5), the left at 10 percent (minus 0.5). In other polling institutes, the SPD was previously still just ahead of the afd.

Eckehard kiesewetter maroldsweisach- ingrid is not interested in that. She can't do anything with beer. Her husband jens and the others at the table were still drinking the delicious dark beer that is brewed in hofheim especially for the beer garden up here. Uber zwolf prozent stammwurze und echt suffig. The group from the sauerland (they all call each other by their first names and think that their last names have no place in the newspaper) has stumbled by chance onto the secluded beer garden on the heights of the zeilberg.

In lichtenstein, where the ruins were the goal of the stage, the cyclists had found no opportunity to stop for a break. So the five of us – ingrid, jens, adele, markus ("all u-40") and 14 year old svenja – got back in the saddle again. Following a tip on the internet, you have a few additional kilometers through the weisachgrund and an "almost alpine" ascent taken in purchase. "Eternally steep", says ingrid. But she is well trained. In addition, a discovery has rewarded the moors. Like her four companions, she finds the biergarten "really nice, idyllic – and exciting".

Digging through old treasures

While the other cyclists stretch their legs and enjoy the mild evening air in the shade of the trees, ingrid and her friend adele are browsing to their heart's content in the flea market they have happily discovered. From an adjoining building he seems to have grown into the beer garden with his old furniture. "Odds and ends, but also great stuff", the women find. You want to come back here and go treasure hunting. "But then with a car."

Veronika schadeck the afd’s top candidate for the european elections, jorg meuthen, came to stockheim on saturday. There he went into the party program. Unlike the appearance of the afd party leader alexander gauland last year, this time there was a big crowd in the "old coal mine" neither a demonstration nor protest posters. The hall in the guesthouse was almost full.

Meuthen was buried in the hall with frenetic ovations, his speech was repeatedly accompanied by applause. Right at the beginning, the afd spokesman made it clear that his group is not a "dexit party" be. However, the EU had to be reformed in order to avoid even more serious damage than that which has already been done.

In his speech, he took aim at the union as well as the social democrats and the greens. In his speech, which lasted about an hour, meuthen accused the CSU’s top candidate, manfred weber, of wanting to put german interests at the back of the queue out of a desire for power – weber wants to become president of the eu commission. The leading candidate of the european social democrats, frans timmermann, breaks the "language of inhuman socialist ideology". He wants completely open borders and a "global multiculturalism," she says to.

He is profiting from the bankruptcy of the previous industry leader schlecker, which had to close stores and lay off thousands of employees. Dm chairman erich harsch is convinced that many former schlecker customers now shop at his dm stores. At the same time, harsch stuck to his line of not saying an unkind word about the competitor, which had not been very popular in the past. He did, however, promise jobs to schlecker employees.

During the presentation of the half-year figures (up to 31 december), harsch pointed out that the. Marz) on tuesday in karlsruhe to the consistently high growth of the group. Sales in germany rose by 12.7 percent over the same period last year to 2.47 billion euros. Growth abroad was slightly lower at 4.5 percent. 862 million euros. At the end of the fiscal year, harsch wants to scratch the 5-billion-euro mark in germany. The group is traditionally silent on profits.

In the past twelve months, dm says it has created 3500 new jobs, 2700 of them in germany. Another 1500 are to be added by the end of the fiscal year. During this period, dm plans to open 60 new stores in germany alone and expand its network to 1306 locations.