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Residents in Älvsjö express concern and shock after a fatal shooting that occurred during an indoor bandy match, where several young people were present, and both the municipality and Hammarby Football mourn the deceased woman who worked with youth in the area. #Älvsjö #Dödsskjutning #Oro (translated)

The School Inspectorate has denied Linköping municipality the ability to conduct distance schooling for primary school students, despite the municipality believing that many students would need digital teaching due to high absenteeism. #distansundervisning #skolfrånvaro #Linköping (translated)

Xoncha Nouri wrote that the 25-year-old woman who was shot in a sports hall in Älvsjö had died and that two teenagers had been taken into custody. According to Nouri, the prosecutor had stated that there was no known connection between the suspects and the victim. She also wrote that the woman had been working in the municipality's youth activities and described the incident as very dark. https://t.co/mnpfQsEexE #brott #ungdomar #säkerhet (translated)

Aja Baja wrote that Imram Ali Barre would take a seat in the municipality and represent S. The person claimed that everyone saw what was happening but that no one dared to act, and asked whether Sweden would be governed based on Somalia's interests. https://t.co/ksEq0inba3 #Sverige #politik #Integration (translated)

The AfD parliamentary group in the German Bundestag raised several questions in connection with their application "Costs and Benefits of Immigration". They asked why, according to their representation, 6 billion euros were paid annually as citizen money to Ukrainians, while support for those requiring care with care level 1 was to be cut to 131 euros. In addition, the group referred to what they believed were indebted municipalities, higher taxes on tobacco and alcohol, as well as planned new levies on sugar and packaging. They asked why immigration had been presented as a means to combat the skilled worker shortage for ten years, even though after seven million additional foreigners there were more skilled workers missing than before. They also contrasted the statement that immigrants stabilize the pension system with plans to abolish the pension without deductions after 45 years of work and raise the retirement age to 70 years. #Zuwanderung #Pflege #Rente (translated)

Apollo News reported that the deportation rate was very low between 2022 and 2025 in numerous cities and counties in North Rhine-Westphalia. Some municipalities had not deported a single person obligated to leave in certain years. https://t.co/WH5Hpyad6I #Abschiebung #NordrheinWestfalen #Migration (translated)

Martin Ågerup wrote that an analysis commissioned by the City of Copenhagen described how kitchen staff at several nursing homes rejected residents' requests for beef on their birthdays due to the municipality's CO₂ accounts. He used the story of the 95-year-old Niels as an example but emphasized that the person was fictional. According to Ågerup, the municipality's guidelines allowed for a maximum of 80 grams of beef, veal, and lamb per week, including deli meats for lunch. He quoted a resident's statement about a significant longing for decent meat. In April, the Conservative Party, Liberal Alliance, Social Democrats, Venstre, and Danish People’s Party proposed exempting nursing homes from the municipality's food strategy. The Socialist Folk Party, Red–Green Alliance, and the Radical Left rejected the proposal in the Health and Care Committee on August 20, Ågerup wrote. He expected the five parties to be in the minority when the new strategy would be adopted in the City Council at the beginning of 2027. Ågerup argued that politicians should not decide how much meat the elderly should eat, and wrote that nursing home residents should be able to choose their birthday food. He highlighted that, according to him, residents had paid taxes for most of their lives, paid rent for their care homes, and 4,414 kroner per month for food. He concluded with a call for less paternalism and more hamburgers, as well as an invitation to join the Taxpayers Association. https://t.co/5SLqHWljnU #plejehjem #fødselsdag #madpolitik (translated)

The author wrote that Marco Jahns, the mayor of Grimmen, had left the CDU due to Friedrich Merz's course, which was no longer bearable for him. In a video, Jahns accused the party of no longer listening to the citizens and stated that it used to stand for economy and security. Reasons for the departure mentioned in the article included a municipal financial crisis, job cuts in industry, around 80 knife attacks daily according to the BKA, as well as open access to the social system and billions in spending while cuts were being made elsewhere. In conclusion, the author characterized the article as satire and stated that nothing in it was meant seriously. #CDU #Politik #Kommunen (translated)

Steffan Nethe honored the mayors Marco Jahns from Grimmen and Thomas Pauketat from Sundhagen for having left the CDU. He wrote that their statements showed they could no longer identify with the political course of the party and that the CDU was also losing its own members. Nethe cited the ongoing de-industrialization, the worst financial crisis of municipalities since World War II, a loss of control over internal security, and the ignoring of the voters' will as reasons. He also criticized that taxpayer money was being spent abroad, while in his opinion it was needed domestically for municipalities, care, and pensions. Nethe described the dual exit in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern as an alarming sign. He wrote that the CDU had lost touch with reality and with its voters. #CDU #Kommunalpolitik #MecklenburgVorpommern (translated)

For Hultsfred, it is positive that such a large investment in new electricity production is being carried out here. Access to electricity and a strong power grid are important conditions for the municipality to be able to develop, attract investments, and create opportunities for the local business community. This also shows what can be achieved when the municipality, the energy industry, and companies work together, says Mikael Karlsson, chairman of the municipal council in Hultsfred. #solkraft #elnät #Hultsfred (translated)

Sahra Wagenknecht praised a WELT article by Thomas Schulze and Claudia Wittig regarding the peace proposal from BSW and AfD in Saxony-Anhalt and shared excerpts from it. The federal government was accused of allocating funds for Ukraine while cutting back on pensions, care, and health services. Wagenknecht also referred to the state elections on September 6, stating that the current politics had been voted out. The proposal, which was to be introduced the following Wednesday, called for peace negotiations and a willingness to compromise. Wagenknecht described it as a historic step and the end of the "firewall," stating that it should send a signal for more diplomacy and less weaponry. Saxony-Anhalt needed to carry the peace policy to the Bundesrat; The Left also had to decide whether to support the proposal. Wagenknecht argued that Germany had already allocated around 100 billion euros for the war and claimed that Ukraine had blown up Nord Stream. She called for an end to sanctions against Russia and a return to Russian oil and gas. According to her, the Ukraine policy and the economic war against Russia were harming citizens, municipalities, and the economy in Saxony-Anhalt, including the chemical triangle, small and medium-sized enterprises, and households. #Frieden #SachsenAnhalt #Politik (translated)

The planned tax reform law for data centers in Berlin aims to distribute the trade tax more fairly, but it brings uncertainties regarding the financial impacts, as concrete data is lacking and some municipalities could be affected by tax losses. #Datacenter #Steuerreform #Gewerbesteuer (translated)

Emanuel Boeminghaus wrote, referring to a GEW interview from October 12, 2026, that the economic expert Achim Truger warned of a significant financing problem. By 2030, defense spending should rise from 125 to 200 billion euros and interest expenses from 30 to 80 billion euros; municipalities were missing around 30 billion euros annually. Truger considers additional revenue of 150 to 200 billion euros per year to be necessary from 2030, Boeminghaus wrote. Possible measures he mentioned include higher asset-based taxes, a higher top income tax rate, a defense solidarity surcharge, and a financial transaction tax. According to Boeminghaus, an increase in value-added tax is also not fundamentally ruled out. He presented the tax demands as just the beginning of possible additional burdens for companies and taxpayers. https://t.co/yU79tnPfI1 #Steuererhöhungen #Wirtschaft #Bundeshaushalt (translated)