If you look white and not poor they will just wave you through

Well, Bundespolizei Officers used for this aren’t usually the brightest, and they only fulfill their jobs at Airports, Borders and Train Stations, so they won’t be badly missed

I didn’t thought we would be ashamed of him that quick.

Being a sycophant won’t do us any favours

They travelled to DeSantis and other GOP Assholes to learn from them. It’s really sad

https://www.faz.net/aktuell/politik/ausland/kritik-an-treffen-von-csu-politikern-mit-desantis-18873777.html

This guy is a complete moron and was already a total failure as a transport minister.

Ignore everything he says.

I’m sorry that my country was so stupid and voted for these “conservative” morons again because apparently they couldn’t remember that they voted them out 4 years ago for letting our infrastructure crumble and blocking any progress in order “to save money” during a zero interest rate phase.

Weed is safer than alcohol and cocaine though. Doesn’t mean it’s harmless

You get people in the ED with Cocaine and Alcohol all the time.

You can Internet and Social Media to that list too

Cocaine is not harmless and will absolutely cause issues. But this stupid war on drugs, them being mixed with shit and the criminalisation cause more of them I guess

Legalize it. War on drugs is stupid and will never be “won”

They just want to sow dissent in the EU

https://vsquare.org/heritage-foundation-mcc-ordo-iuris-russia-european-union-european-court-of-justice/

I hope the EU responds strongly and with a punishment for trying to meddle inside of EU’s Affairs. (The Heritage Foundation - the assholes behind Project 2025 - want to split up the European Union)

Maybe they should review American financed Organisations in Europe, and put them under stricter rules.
Or they should negotiate with California and other blue states for a trade deal like they wanted, to undermine the legitimacy of the Trump Administration and inciting the fire there

It doesn’t, the buyed back stocks belong to the company which belongs to the remaining shareholders

Why should a company buy back “ownership” for itself?

It’s usually just to make the stock price going up without doing anything real to augment it, so the top management hits their bonus triggers and/or their stock options become more valuable.

So it’s them enriching itself and the owners pay the bill for it.

For the Shareholders it usually doesn’t create any real value like R&D Investment or giving it back through dividends would do.

And we’ve seen it in the US like with the Airlines that the companies blew all their profits for Stock Buybacks, and then immediately demanded for a bailout when business became tougher

No. My Travelcard loaded on the Navigo Easy card worked on all my Paris Visits on Bus/Tram/Metro/RER

They are investing in their Public Transport Network like no one else (Grand Paris Express). I’m quite jealous in Germany with our investment brake morons in politics.

Here a short video mentioning the investments and upgrades they are undertaking right now,

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ot5vp6FZ_Bg&pp=ygUUSURGIG1vYmlsaXRlcyByZXNlYXU%3D

And here you can see how much a new tram line construction is also upgrading the environment surrounding it, and making it more liveable (they’re also adding cycle lanes and making the spaces more pedestrian friendly)

https://youtu.be/Z06FduDShx0

Compare that to big cities in Germany where a bit/nothing is really happening. Especially not with our new dumb conservative government

Impounding the ship until it’s insured?

Giving Ukraine a big weapons package for every bullshit interference they do, and make it clear why they are getting it. Supporting Guerilla Groups in Russia which are blowing up infrastructure, etc…

This bullshit should be banned. Invest the money in R&D instead, make some reserves or pay a dividend.

Yes, the same with a single public health insurance. Directly after he became Minister, the Lobby Group of the Private Health Insurances invited him, and he immediately flipped and sang praises on them.

https://www.pkv.de/verband/presse/meldungen/lauterbach-pkv-ist-ein-unverzichtbarer-bestandteil-der-versorgung/

For some reason he is still immensely popular. I never got it. He fucked up the German Healthcare System in the first place, and was in the board of one of the shittiest for profit operators for years. (Which also famously tried to circumvent the minimum wage in Germany)

These fines are the definition of “Fuck around and find out”

The only concerning thing is that these companies think they stand above the laws