Not to weigh in on one side or the other but the Nazis claimed a lot of things.
That they were socialists, that Poland had attacked Germany...
I wouldn't rely on what they said.

Barcelona still has plenty of regular commercial Hotels that are purpose built to house many tourists.

somehow an even bigger clusterfuck

I agree that rejoining won't magically solve all problems but I don't see how it would make things worse.

austerity measure after austerity measure and somehow made our budgetal deficit worse

Not surprising.
Reducing government spending means reducing the money that is in economic circulation.
Companies earn less, people earn less and ultimately taxes go down.

Ah, I see.
So the water is not too warm for cooling, it's too warm to absorb the backfeed, which is a necessary result of the cooling process.
Which effectively still means that they can't properly cool the plant because the river water is too warm.

Besides providing verbatim records of who said what, there is a second can of worms in forming any sort of binding agreement if the two sides of the agreement are having two different conversations.

I think this is what the part about the missed nuance means.

Wenn keiner ran geht, kann man aber auch nicht behaupten man hätte den anderen informiert.

Once this has been implemented, something worse can be implemented.

I don't like these slippery slope arguments. You might as well reduce it to any legislation.
Once people are allowed to make laws, bad people can make bad laws.
Which is why we must continue to vote in the right people, not abandon the concept of laws.

In this case, I don't doubt that copyright infringement and general censorship are on some people's agenda.
But this current proposal is bad enough itself and should be opposed because of that and not because someone might make other, even worse proposals in the future.

France has plenty of nuclear power.
It doesn't help with renewable peaks in the slightest.

What is needed are storage solutions and flexible usage that can utilize cheap power at peak times.

Wie immer haben höhere Strafen nur wenig Einfluss auf mögliches strafbares Verhalten.
Viel wichtiger wären konsequentere Verfolgung und v.a. Prävention aber das kostet halt.

This principle is called Richtlinienkompetenz (directive competence). He or she can basically order members of his cabinet what to do.

It should be noted, that this doesn't allow the Chancellor to micromanage the Ministers.
The Chancellor can set the political agenda and make high level decisions but Ministers have some degree of constitutionally ensured independence in how exactly they implement policies.

Da eine Reaktion der polnischen Seite auch auf Nachfrage für mehrere Stunden ausblieb

Ich frage mich halt auch, wie diese Nachfrage ausgesehen hat.
Wenn man direkt anruft, kann eine Reaktion ja nicht komplett ausbleiben.
Die Bundespolizei wird doch wohl die Nummer vom polnischen Grenzschutz haben.

Tbf, it sounds like neither side did a stellar job here.

Poland not reacting "for several hours" makes it sound almost deliberate.
Then again, I wonder how German police "informed" Poland for there to be no reaction. Did they fax?
If they think the situation requires an immediate reply, why not call them? Surely a dedicated border patrol unit would have a contact number.
Also, despite Schengen I don't think police can just cross the border to another state unless in pursuit of some fleeing criminal.
And just dumping these people in some random location without any involvement of local authorities doesn't seem like proper protocol.

It doesn’t “rely” on that.

France doesn't rely on river water to cool power plants?
Where does the water come from then?

Im November 2023 hatten die Bundesländer die Reform zunächst abgelehnt – vor allem die Länder, in denen die Union mitregiert. Sie kritisierten: Die Verkehrssicherheit werde in der Gesetzesänderung nicht genug betont.
Deshalb steht in dem Entwurf, den der Vermittlungsausschuss abgesegnet hat, dass die Sicherheit des Verkehrs nicht beeinträchtigt werden dürfe.

Puh, da hat uns die Union aber gerade noch so vor gemeingefährlichen Tempo 30 Zonen bewahrt.
Nicht auszudenken was passiert wäre, wenn Kommunen die eingeführt hätten, ohne dass das extra mit im Gesetz steht.

That's half the explanation.
The economic and social decline makes people susceptible to populists.

But the other half is this:
They're not the only populists.
To vote for outright, obvious Neo-Nazis you also have to ok with Neo-Nazis.

Die Union hat halt konservative Politik links hinter sich gelassen und ist auf den reaktionären Zug aufgesprungen.

Inflation “going down” doesn’t mean there is no more inflation. It only means that there is less inflation than before

Keep in mind that "inflation going down" is usually shorthand for the year-on-year inflation rate going down.
If the yoy inflation rate goes down from one month to the next, then prices are still higher than previous year but may very well have fallen since last month.

That’s why the button says “purchase” instead of “buy”

First off, they're synonyms
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/purchase#synonyms

Now, I'm certainly no expert on the US legal system. It certainly seems silly if you could circumvent entire laws just by using synonyms but what do I know.
However I have been talking about other countries where that is not the case and where the language is not English.
So It really doesn't matter whether it say "buy" or "purchase" in English when it's "kaufen" in German or "acheter" in French.

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