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LilitThyra wrote that a refugee shelter should be built in Berlin for 25 million euros, which she referred to as a "luxury accommodation." Left-leaning voters from the upscale district on the Stralau peninsula were already looking forward to it, according to her description. The state-owned housing company Degewo is supposed to build the accommodation; the state of Berlin aims to rent it through the responsible state office. A rental period of 30 years is planned. #Berlin #Flüchtlinge #Wohnen (translated)

Baha wrote that the hatred of the left towards innovative entrepreneurs like Musk goes so far that, out of exaggerated local patriotism, they spontaneously celebrated a 500k combustion engine from a luxury brand, which, in his view, they would prefer to expropriate. He portrayed this as absurd. #Innovation #Politik #Unternehmer (translated)

Aleksandar Vučić personally threatened the leaders of the heritage protection to remove the protection of a Yugoslav army building so that Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, could build a luxury hotel in Belgrade, which eventually led to a corruption scandal and charges in Serbia. #Belgrád #műemlékvédelem #korrupció (translated)

Porsche presented the design of its new super sports car "Mission S" in New York, which will be positioned as the new flagship model above the sports car icon 911 and is part of a new corporate strategy that aims for fewer but more expensive luxury vehicles. #Porsche #MissionS #Supersportwagen (translated)

Sparbuchfeinde wrote that the CDU underestimates how much it is already weakened. In a premium gym that costs a three-digit amount per month and whose audience consists 70 percent of middle-class retirees and many former entrepreneurs, complaints about politics and especially the Union have significantly increased in the locker rooms and sauna over the past 12 to 16 months. In his assessment, these people are mostly former or current core voters of the CDU and FDP. The older people are the last voter group that has remained with the CDU, and the party is losing them not for demographic reasons but because of leftist policies, wrote Sparbuchfeinde. #CDU #Politik #Rentner (translated)

In Tirana, protests against Prime Minister Rama are escalating again as thousands take to the streets over corruption, expensive luxury projects, and rising education costs, leading to violent clashes between demonstrators and the police. #Albanien #Proteste #Korruption (translated)

Matthias accused Egon Krenz of having asked Mikhail Gorbachev during a visit to Moscow on November 1, 1989, for the deployment of Soviet troops against East German citizens. Gorbachev rejected this and stated that the troops would remain in their barracks. Krenz only signed the order against the use of firearms on November 3, Matthias wrote. He claimed that Krenz later falsely asserted that he had prevented bloodshed in the fall of 1989. The responsible commanders on the ground had waited in vain for orders from the leadership and had independently ordered not to shoot. Matthias also accused Krenz of shared responsibility for election fraud in May 1989 and wrote that he had approved of the Tiananmen massacre. Furthermore, Matthias pointed out that Krenz had been sentenced in 1997 to six years and six months in prison for manslaughter and co-responsibility for the East German border regime, of which he had served nearly four years. He criticized Krenz's complaints about the conditions of his detention in the Plötzensee prison, his defense of the GDR, and his complaints about the amount of his pension. Matthias also wrote that Krenz had only been in power for 50 days before being ousted by the people, and he stated that he should have been entitled to social welfare instead of pension and royalty payments. #DDR #Gorbatschow #Wende (translated)

Coxx wrote that organized crime is protected by the police in Leverkusen. He described the Goman clan as consisting of about 1,000 people and being a Roma extended family, using a derogatory term. He accused members of the clan of fraud— including the grandchild trick and shock calls to seniors— money laundering, theft, dealing with counterfeit money, and social benefits fraud. They flaunt luxury goods like Rolls-Royce and Porsche while simultaneously receiving social benefits. After an arson attack and the placement of a non-live practice hand grenade in front of the villa, the family is now under police protection, Coxx wrote. #OrganisiertesVerbrechen #Leverkusen #GomanClan (translated)

Gerald Markel accused Ukrainian citizens of living in Europe off money from corruption and theft. He referred to data from the Spanish Notary Chamber, according to which more than 14,000 real estate transactions with Ukrainian buyers, amounting to over two billion euros, had been registered since the beginning of the war. The average income in Ukraine is approximately 600 euros, he wrote. Markel claimed that since February 2022, 500 billion euros and dollars had flowed into Ukraine, with 300 billion coming from Europe. Germany had provided more than 100 billion euros in taxpayers' money over the past 4.5 years. He also criticized the EU for planning to introduce a control mechanism for the use of funds only in 2026, in connection with a 90-billion-euro package. He accused Ukraine of holding state funerals for SS collaborators and mass murderers. As an example of what he sees as inconsistent controls, Markel described the sale of a property in Vienna to a Ukrainian citizen in 2019 for just under five million euros. Although the buyer had lived in Germany for years and had the money in German accounts, Markel stated that it had been difficult for months to open an escrow account in Austria for the purchase. Banks had deemed the scrutiny of the source of funds too cumbersome; the transaction was only completed after months and numerous documents. He lamented that European citizens were subjected to strict compliance checks for transfers, while the Spanish real estate purchases by Ukrainian citizens went through without issues. #Ukraine #Korruption #Finanzen (translated)

Engineer Honza stated that he proposed in the House to discuss a call to President Petr Pavel to reveal who rented the private jet for his vacation in Morocco and who paid for the trip. According to him, the costs must have reached millions of crowns. If Pavel did not pay from his personal account, he should, according to Honza, step down from his position; as a similar case, he mentioned the resignation of German President Christian Wulff in 2012. Honza claimed that the media, which he labeled as pro-Brussels, overlooked the topic and announced its discussion in the 360 program on CNN Prima News. According to him, the case could either damage the image of a president close to the people due to the luxury that 99% of citizens, in his words, cannot afford, or show that someone else paid for the trip, which he regarded as a reason for abdication. #politika #česko #občanskáodpovědnost (translated)