Germany needs to start talking about how unreasonable education requirements are for jobs here. Should everything but the most basic job require a multi-year apprenticeship? A half-time position as greeter at the Bundestag requires a year-long course, but they'd prefer someone with three years experience as head of house in a restaurant. For a 20 hour a week contract. An IT cloud engineer position at BVG requires C1 level German and pays 3/5 the going rate (under 50k).
It's so striking that the 2 polar political wrestling is very comparable to France and America. There is an angry rightwing which see ethnic minorities as a major cause of economic hardship, flirts with Nazi / fascist rhetoric (and techniques), and is anti-LGBTQ+. On the other side it's the "center left", but in reality resembles conservative politics, which keeps making concessions towards the rightwing, while never earnestly addressing economic failures.
Germany needs to start talking about how unreasonable education requirements are for jobs here. Should everything but the most basic job require a multi-year apprenticeship? A half-time position as greeter at the Bundestag requires a year-long course, but they'd prefer someone with three years experience as head of house in a restaurant. For a 20 hour a week contract. An IT cloud engineer position at BVG requires C1 level German and pays 3/5 the going rate (under 50k).
Somehow reading the words “Friedrich Merz, the patriarch” made me burst out laughing. Thank you for this, Andy😂
It's so striking that the 2 polar political wrestling is very comparable to France and America. There is an angry rightwing which see ethnic minorities as a major cause of economic hardship, flirts with Nazi / fascist rhetoric (and techniques), and is anti-LGBTQ+. On the other side it's the "center left", but in reality resembles conservative politics, which keeps making concessions towards the rightwing, while never earnestly addressing economic failures.
Fdp are libertarian, not liberal. They are as much trouble for the liberal EP group as for the coalition.