In the fight against plastic gauze, the EU commission’s planned ban on individual products such as plastic tableware or straws falls short in the eyes of the greens.
Systematic collection and recycling of waste is the only way to help, european parliament member martin hausling told the german press agency. EU budget commissioner gunther oettinger confirmed his plan for a levy on non-recycled plastic waste.
Amazon has continued to benefit from the internet shopping boom in the midst of the pandemic. In the second quarter, sales shot up by 40 percent to 88.9 billion dollars (75.1 billion euros) compared to the previous year’s figure, as the group announced in seattle after the close of the US stock exchange.
The profit of the world’s largest online retailer was 5.2 billion dollars, roughly double the previous year’s figure. The results were considerably higher than the analysts’ forecasts, and the share price initially reacted with strong price increases. The fact that amazon, with its delivery services, is one of the major beneficiaries of the corona crisis had already become apparent in the previous quarter. In addition, the cloud business with IT services and storage space in the network continues to flourish, even if amazon’s flagship AWS has recently not quite been able to meet the high expectations.
The job center is the point of contact for all recognized refugees in the district for benefits under "hartz IV". Once an application for benefits has been approved, the job center’s integration work begins. The job center is currently looking after 534 refugees, compared with 494 in july. This corresponds to about one quarter of all people who are employable and in need here. Most refugees come from syria and iraq.
Since most of the refugees do not know german and often bring with them previous professional knowledge that is not in demand in this country, integration is a difficult but rewarding process for both sides, according to a press release. Initially, the most important goal is to inform them about the german benefits system and the basic rules of life here.
In a first step, group information in arabic, english and german explains to them what the job center is and how it works. In a second step, the arabic-speaking employees provide advice in personal languages. They will also clarify what conditions refugees must meet in order to receive unemployment benefit II, what applications they must complete, and what documents they must bring with them. They also provide information on how the job center can help them find a place to live.
Chancellor angela merkel (CDU) was thus able to push through her most important demands. She was heavily criticized for the demand from germany for a "savings commissioner" for greece, but only gave in in her choice of words.
In their intergovernmental fiscal compact, the 25 countries pledge to save money and introduce a debt brake based on the german model. States accept tougher EU budget controls and tougher penalties against defaulters.
TSV muhlhausen/schraudenbach – SV rot-weib obererthal: SV obererthal (18) came away empty-handed./8) out on double match day last week. After the 0:3 home defeat against TSV bad konigshofen, the leiber-truppe also had to give in to SV garitz (1:2) and now travels to TSV muhlhausen/schraudenbach (6./41), another top team of the bezirksliga. For michael leiber it is even the team of the ruckrunde, from the last ten encounters the troop of coach elmar drenkard got proud 22 points. "We will try to play fubball again in muhlhausen and spoil their soup", the coach from obererthal has not lost faith in his team, even though the personnel situation does not bode well. So andreas graup as well as benny and flo hofbauer are professionally or. Due to studies not in the game, andre fub, oliver graup and marcel schmitt are injured.
FC fuchsstadt – FC strahlen: after missing out on big points in the 4-2 defeat in guntersleben, FC fuchsstadt (8./40) against FC strahlungen (16./23) a home treble. In any case, coach marius kubo is confident that the. "We must build on the performance of the game against rottendorf (3:2) or the first half hour in guntersleben and pay attention to strahlungens spielertrainer jurgen hein." In guntersleben his team played strong at the beginning, but missed the decision, so that the home side could equalize before the break with a double strike and took the air out of the fuschtern in the second half. "We couldn’t do anything against them, conceding goals too easily put us off our stride", the fox coach sees a shortcoming. And kubo notes that five games in twelve days, including the cup, are borderline. "We have already used 26 players this season, the constant changes do not do the game any good."
More than 60 members and guests attended the members’ meeting of the vdk local association podeldorf-naisa. In his report, chairman hubertus jacobi only briefly touched on the situation after the election. On the upcoming "help heal wounds" collection called the chairman and thanked in advance to the collectors. The local association currently has 211 members.
The events of the last year lieb jacobi pass in review and remembered beautiful common experiences. A new feature was a bicycle tour, which was very well received.
In his greeting, mayor wolfgang mohrlein thanked the vdk for the important work it does for the older citizens of mitburg. "Without the voluntary work of the vdk, our social system would not exist in this form", emphasized mohrlein.
The new district manager udia holschuh introduced herself. She briefly described the work of the vdk state association and the objectives for social policy in our state.
The honors were the high point of the meeting. Members were honored for ten, 25 and 30 years of membership. A special honor was bestowed on elfriede koschwitz: she was made an honorary member. Her more than 30 years of service on the board, especially as a supervisor and representative of women, was emphasized.
The mannergesangverein "sangerkranz" zeil honored and made an excursion.
These days, the end-of-year service took place at the zeiler kappele, which the singers helped to shape musically. Afterwards they met for the annual closing party in the neighboring mountain inn for a cozy get-together.
Cuban joie de vivre was promised by the music and dance formation "pasion de buena vista" in the regentenbau in bad kissing. The special musical style of cuba is essentially influenced by wim wenders’ film "buena vista social club" embossed.
With the promising program title, the nearly 20 actors drew a parallel to the well-known role model, and even the decoration with a huge canvas, which presented the ramshackle charm of a street scene with the typical oldtimers in havana, referred to the latin american origin of the show. Before that, the instrumental line-up presented itself with drums, wind set, guitar, electric bass and keyboard. Bongos and various timbres provide the typical sound that is reflected in music and dance styles. So the formation started full of verve and very swinging into the evening, which went through the whole bandwidth with salsa, mambo, rumba and cha-cha-cha, but also presented the typical music styles like son and danzon.
A certain aggression is spreading among the dear fellow human beings. No wonder, the increasingly long winter, the cold and the lack of light leave their mark.
When on friday the heavy rain from dark clouds fell on large parts of the county, it was especially bad. It started early. A honk on the road. No reason, and yet everyone seemed to think they had to loudly put the other in his place. To this, squealing tires and fully turned up loudspeakers.
In the last two years, the newly gilded crowns on the repaired spires and roofs of the church st have gradually become more and more visible. Michael put back on. The last gold ornament, the cross of the saint’s grave chapel, has now been applied. Thus, all six crowns have been reassembled, the repair of the eleven roof structures of the former abbey church of st. Michael is completed, informs the city press office.
Since 2015, the federal program "national projects in urban development – future investment program" has been supporting other parts of the former monastery st. Michael restored. In addition to the renovation of several facades, an information center with a monastery store was built and the former abbey church was structurally repaired. In july, all work within the framework of the federal program can be successfully completed. All the objectives of the structural restoration of the church were achieved and completed within the extremely tight construction time of only three years specified by the federal program.