Finance

The fact that the bamberg sandkerwa has an impact far beyond the region has now been proven once again in nurnberg, where finance and home affairs minister albert furacker (CSU) presented the "home award of northern bavaria" awarded – and the sandkirchweih is one of the eight awarded.

The traditional event is an important part of the francophone church tradition with supraregional significance, the minister stressed, according to a statement from his ministry. "This traditional bamberger folk festival is a colorful mixture of kirchweihfest, strabenfest and bierfest with a regional beer variety and as a meeting point for young and old strengthens the sense of belonging to the region. Bamberg’s historic old town, a unesco world heritage site since 1993, provides a unique setting for the event, says furacker.

The first cornerstones of the energy turnaround were agreed on monday in the rough round – but many details on the intended containment of rising electricity prices are still unclear. Planned cuts in the expansion of wind energy could still meet with resistance in SPD-governed northern lander. Tenants to be better protected in future from horrendous rents.

At the halay point of the coalition negotiations, the party leaders took over the reins of power after just under three weeks. For the first time, angela merkel (CDU), horst seehofer (CSU) and sigmar gabriel (SPD) held a small meeting with just a few people they knew. Merkel spoke of a good interim result. The coalition agreement is due to be signed on. November. The working groups must be ready a week in advance.

The kronach branch of the verdi service union honored loyal members at the "zum frack" inn in steinberg. The 44 jubilarians have 1450 years of loyalty to the union, for which local chairman schmitt and doris stadelmayer, manager of the upper franconia-west region, expressed their thanks.
The jubilarians are the living proof that success is not a one-off, but has to be fought for and maintained in the long term. This requires an independent, strong and assertive trade union, said schmitt at the start of the meeting.
Stadelmayer pointed out many achievements that today were taken for granted, for which trade unionists had to fight for years and months. She regretted that the workers had nothing from the economic boom. Despite the upswing over the past few years, the proportion of over-indebted people in germany has risen, and over-indebtedness is increasing particularly sharply in the over-65 age group. Even after the federal elections, there were no signs of change, according to stadelmayer. The chancellor advocates a clear continuation of the same approach to pensions. It is very worrying that the discussion is not about poverty among the elderly and the housing shortage, but that the CSU is calling for an upper limit for refugees. Making migrants out to be scapegoats only distracts from the real issue and social imbalance.

For more justice

According to stadelmayer, the real cause of the afd's rise is social injustice in germany. Because financial administrations are understaffed, the state loses twelve billion euros a year. That's where the money the country desperately needs is to be found, not in cursed people, she denounced.
As verdi demands she named the damming of precarious employment, pensions for a good life, social housing and urgent investment in education. In germany, one percent of the population owns 38.8 percent of the net wealth, she said, addressing the distribution imbalance. In conclusion, she called on the jubilarians and all members to work for solidarity with one another and for a country in which people can live well from their work and receive a decent pension after their working lives.
Mayor susanne grebner emphasized the importance of trade unions, especially in today's world, where many people cannot make a living from their work and poverty among the elderly is becoming more and more widespread.
The musical framing took place by the sanger song maker stefan hofmann from lichtenfels, who gave with thoughtful texts and arrangements some food for thought.

The "star wars" saga continues. The latest film in the series hits theaters on thursday: "the last jedi" once again features old heroes like mark hamill and the already deceased carrie fisher.

Also new stars like adam driver, daisy ridley, john boyega, oscar isaac, lupita nyong?O and andy serkis are at it again. The film series, celebrated by millions of fans worldwide, is one of the most commercially successful in history. Little is yet known about "the last jedi" – so to get you in the mood, here’s a look back at the works so far:

The 30-year-old world number two beat defending champion xander schauffele from the u.S. In a play-off. After four rounds, both players were tied for the lead with 269 strokes each, so victory had to come in a playoff. Third place in the 10.25 million dollar event went to sudafrican louis oosthuizen (271).

Mcilroy is only the third professional to win three of the four events in the world golf championships series. Previously, only u.S. Superstar tiger woods and his compatriot dustin johnson had achieved this feat. For his success at shenshan international golf club, mcilroy collected prize money of 1.745 million dollars.

Building applications dominated the agenda of the meeting of the market town council in schondra.

There was a long discussion about the application for a preliminary decision for the construction of a new building for the company mobel und raum in the industrial area marzgrund.A building with five full stories is planned, whereas the development plan only provides for two full stories. From a submitted sketch it appeared that the building would only slightly overhang the existing span tower because of the sloping land. Nevertheless, roman jorg (CSU) was of the opinion that the building, located directly at the access road to the industrial area, was too high and too dominating. Andreas martin (CBB) argued similarly, accepting a reduction to four full stories; his motion to request documents on the height of the building with corresponding views from the applicant did not find a majority with 5:5 votes.

The state of bavaria actively supports its structurally weak municipalities in rural areas. Across bavaria, 141 municipalities receive over 144 million euros in need-based allocations and stabilization aid. The district of habberge, the town of zeil and the municipality of bundorf will also benefit from this, according to a statement from the habberge district administration office.

"A strong signal for financially weak municipalities to consolidate their budgets. The funds are part of the municipal financial equalization scheme in the free state, which will reach a record volume of over 9.5 billion euros in 2018. Once again this year, one in four euros from the bavarian state budget goes to municipalities, cities, counties and districts. In this way, the free state supports its municipalities as never before", albert furacker, minister of finance and home affairs, stated at the presentation of the decisions for need allocations and stabilization aids to the representatives of the municipalities in nurnberg.