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The SPD city council faction held regular elections for the new faction leadership on the agenda. The incumbent executive committee was unanimously confirmed: chairman remains thomas nowak, his deputies continue to be andreas gehring and gabriele morper-marr; the latter is also still treasurer. Stefan leistner, who is also chairman of the coburg branch of the SPD and was considered a possible "crown prince" when he was elected two years ago, will continue to serve as secretary of norbert kastner (SPD), mayor of oberburg since 1990, was traded. But maybe the enjoyers don’t have to look so fast, because kastner is running again in the 2014 municipal elections?

Thomas nowak, who first described the result of the board election as an "expression of gross unity as well as "consequence of a very successful local political work for coburg" the news from the city of thessaloniki naturally also took a look at the ballot box event two years ago. He announced: "together with our mayor norbert kastner and our second mayor norbert tessmer we will continue our way and bring coburg further forward!" and he said: "we will go into these elections very well positioned in terms of content and personnel – with the goal of improving the result of 2008 once again."

In his report, thomas nowak had pointed out some aspects that were particularly important for the SPD faction: "we have developed a long-term concept to demand early childhood education and are implementing it very successfully. The focus is on quality and reducing the size of the group trenches. In the coming year, we will be able to offer a daycare place for almost every second child under the age of three. We invest in education, training and qualifications." everyone, nowak stressed, must get a chance at a good education as a start in professional life. All age groups of the population also had to be enabled to use their skills and contribute to the well-being of society.

That would be around 1,200 jobs more than envisaged at this point in time in the savings package called the "future pact". Group CEO herbert diess had already launched the program as head of the VW brand in order to make the low-yield core brand more profitable again. The "pact" was initially hotly disputed between management and the works council.

By the end of 2018, the savings in annual costs should reach 2.2 billion euros. According to the plan, costs in germany should then have dropped by 3 billion euros by 2020.

However, partly due to problems with the introduction of the new emissions and consumption tests in europe, VW now only expects to achieve a profit margin adjusted for special effects at the lower end of the targeted 4 to 5 percent in the current fiscal year. The figure indicates how much of sales is left over as profit before interest, taxes and special costs, for example to deal with the diesel crisis.

It could be an unusual feeling for pop star helene fischer (29 "error-free"): the singer, who is used to success, landed a veritable flop on saturday evening! The culprit is a one-hour concert recording made by ZDF after the saturday thriller "ein starkes team" (a strong team) the audience, despite all the hype about fischer, did not like it at all, as the website "quotenmeter" reports.De" reports.

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Almost half of ZDF viewers did not want to see the performance and switched over or off without further ado: while a good 5.3 million people still wanted to see the crime thriller, the number of viewers for helene fischer dropped to 2.77 million. Young viewers, in particular, apparently couldn’t do much with fischer’s hits in the live version: only 0.6 million tv viewers between the ages of 14 and 49 were watching; according to the figures, this corresponds to a rate of 5.3 percent.

Fish die more and more often in dredging lakes in the district due to lack of oxygen. This was also the case last year at the messelausee in the hainert district, which the nassachtal fishing club from knetzgau leased from the town of habfurt. Now the association wants to install a power-driven ventilation system and gets support from the city of habfurt.

In the meeting of the finance and main committee of the habfurt city council, mayor gunther werner (WG) reported that the association wants to install an aeration system in the lake for about 7000 euros. Because it is located in the nature reserve "mainaue bei augsfeld" lies, arrangements had to be made especially with the higher nature conservation authority (government of lower franconia in wurzburg). The costs for the construction of the power line were estimated by the association at 9000 to 10 000 euro. "The angler friends nassachtal are not a club from habfurt. However, it is in the interest of the city of habfurt that our water is in a good condition", according to the mayor.

The veterinary office has pointed out that fish are vertebrates, for which unnecessary suffering must be prevented at all costs. Therefore, the city of habfurt should provide the necessary cable, the cost of which was estimated at a maximum of 3000 euros, to the association. Thus, the city would remain the owner of the cable in the event of a change of tenant.

This is what the CDU politician told the "bild" newspaper (friday). Mappus is under investigation by the stuttgart public prosecutor’s office on suspicion of embezzlement in the multi-billion euro enbw deal. At the end of 2010, mappus is said to have badly prepared the buyback of 45 percent of the energy utility for 4.7 billion euros and thus paid too much. Mappus said in the interview: "I was, am and remain convinced that the price is right."

Investigations by the public prosecutor’s office could "also open up the possibility of refuting the accusations that have been made," mappus stressed. He expressed his conviction that no charges will be brought against him: "I firmly believe that it will turn out that the accusations held by the court of auditors in particular are largely unfounded and that we have therefore acted in an economically correct manner in an admittedly unusual situation".

Mappus criticized the behavior of the green-red state government: for a year now, nothing has been left out that could hurt him. "However, i did not expect anything else from mr. Kretschmann and his team."

"Finally, we can put our new fire truck into service today", said ulrich falk, chairman of the enheim firefighters’ association, at the beginning of the ceremony in the firefighters’ council building. The floriansjunger in the martinsheim district acquired a used fire engine mercedes LF 8/6, which had previously been used by their comrades in wiesenbronn. Priest uwe stradtner blessed the vehicle with the registration number KT-EN-200 and mayor rainer ott handed over the symbolic key to the commanders norbert meeder and markus gumpelein in front of many burghers.

Norbert meeder confessed to having longed for the day with both laughing and crying eyes. The LF 8/6 is equipped with breathing apparatus, can carry a ladder, has a 600-liter water tank and an emergency generator. Since the rescue kit with spreader and scissors is too big for the LF 8/6, it will now go to the martinsheim fire department.

"Now it’s not so cool in the squad car", said norbert meeder, because now the times with the hanomag, which was only equipped with a tarpaulin, are over. As rainer ott explained, the municipal council had unanimously approved the purchase, and after three quarters of a year of waiting, the people of enheim were able to pick up the LF 8/6 at the beginning of the year. "It’s a challenge for the enheimer wehr", said ott, it was important to get fit for respiratory protection. The fire department has 13 young firefighter candidates, and firefighting will now become more attractive for them in particular.

New u.S. President joe biden has sharpened course drastically on saudi arabia in a departure from the policies of his predecessor donald trump.

In connection with the murder of journalist jamal khashoggi in october 2018, the biden government announced sanctions, but crown prince mohammed bin salman was spared from them. Shortly before, the office of U.S. Intelligence coordinator avril haines had released a previously classified report on the case. It shows that the crown prince had authorized the operation to capture or kill khashoggi at the saudi consulate in istanbul, according to the U.S. Intelligence community.

Saudi auben ministry immediately rejected the report as "false" and "unacceptable". It contained "erroneous information and conclusions" about the saudi leadership, the ministry said. The "horrific crime" constitutes a blatant violation of saudi law. Those who had committed it had been sentenced. The kingdom rejects measures that violate its sovereignty and the independence of its judiciary.

Spd and grune insist that the federal office for radiation protection be given a central role. According to negotiation circles, it could take over the assessment of possible sites and operate the repository. Due to EU legal requirements, the federal ministry for the environment sees the need for a second authority that could control the search.

Informal talks are currently underway; on wednesday afternoon, german environment minister peter altmaier (CDU) was scheduled to meet with the environment ministers of the german states. As soon as there is an agreement, especially with the SPD and green leaders, on the details of the search law, there could be a final bund-lander meeting. The cabinet then had to decide on a draft law and then the bundestag had to discuss it.

However, the environment ministry denied a report in the newspaper "die welt" on tuesday, according to which there was already a new agreed draft bill. The paper cited is also not the basis of the ongoing exploratory talks, said a spokesman. According to the report, a new federal office for nuclear safety should be created to coordinate the search for a repository for highly radioactive nuclear waste.

The car sharing industry in germany sees itself in the auind. More and more people are registering for the services, 350.000 user accounts added in the course of 2018. This is the result of the 2019 carsharing statistics presented by the bundesverband carsharing.

"After a period of stagnation, the market has grown significantly again," said gunnar nehrke, managing director of the umbrella organization. Most users are registered for so-called free-floating services. Customers are not tied to specific stations when they borrow or return cars. Stationless services account for 1.81 million of the total 2.46 million user accounts. In terms of fleet size, the car manufacturers daimler and BMW, which are currently merging their car-sharing services drivenow and car2go, already occupy first and second place among free-floating providers.

The merger between the industry groups does not worry nehrke. "Of course, this will create germany’s largest car-sharing company," but overall, there would be no new competitive situation in the market because providers would only offer their services in certain locations, while other companies would dominate the market elsewhere, nehrke said.

Jupp heynckes did not have to play the admonisher for his inebriated champions bayern.

"I don’t think my players will be impressed by the result. You know that the champions league quarterfinals will be a different matter," said the coach after the exuberant goal party against the former championship rivals. The 6-0 win over dortmund’s borussia, which was even pitied by munich, did not dazzle any star ahead of tuesday’s konigsklasse task at sevilla FC.

The five-time european league winners from spain will not allow themselves the kind of total failures that BVB suffered in the first leg of the quarterfinals. "It was a good start for the coming weeks. It’s good for us to get right back into that frame of mind after the defeat in leipzig," said bayern captain thomas muller. Between the two sevilla duels, the german fubball record champion finally wants to win its 28th league title. Making the championship perfect. Spab had the bayern but also without the vollzug in the long-decided title question abundant.