To my German readers, with love and alarm: AfD polling first at 29% while Russian drones probe NATO's borders and Moscow's playbook for Germany is already written. I watched this film in Georgian. The party promising "peace with Russia" delivers neither peace nor a Russia that stays out. It delivers you to them — in installments.
@unbekannt799 Gespart wird überall der nicht zu den reichsten der Gesellschaft gehört. Jetzt erreicht es halt auch die obere Mittelschicht die bisher fleißig CDU gewählt hat.
How many billions of euros is the EU going to invest in weapons for Ukraine?
As many as it takes. As many as it takes to make sure Ukraine is victorious and that Russia is crushed, along with its imperial ambitions.
@Karl_Lauterbach WAS DIE SPD NICHT SAGT: wir machen mit der Cdu alles um nicht das Vermögen, Kapitalerträge, Steuervermeidung und große Erbschaften ordentlich zu besteuern. Man könnte sich auch mal die Beitragsbemessungsgrenzen ansehen!
Parents in Europe contribute about 2.6 times as much to raising the next generation as non-parents do.
Parents pay less net tax but invest their private money and unpaid care time.
Pension systems later redistribute the returns to the childless, de facto subsidising them.
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