They scream like someone is murdering babies.

I’m sure those sociopaths at Google will like that.

That really expensive, will get more expensive and could totally buy a lot of solar & wind

As discussed below: She is free to leave. She doesn’t want to leave Israel. Now Israel is doing the whole due process to kick her out. So she will not spent her time in jail - this is totally senseless theatre.

There are no “Hauptgerichte” in Germany. So whatever you want to say, you seem to have no idea at all about german laws

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He actually criticized the construction of Israeli settlements and called for more help for Gaza, but you won’t learn that when your news source contains of three sentences. And BTW: he didn’t deny palestines right to exist. He wants to recognize Palestine after successful negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians. You might want to start reading newspapers whose articles contain more than three sentences and maybe take back your racism accusation. It really is not helping

What a garbage article. They are giving a whole press conference with the visiting Israeli foreign minister and all we get posted here is from a swedish newpaper and contains three sentences. Three fucking sentences of ragebait - can we please post some more credible articles here?

The crit d’air itself is cheap - I recently ordered one and even with postage to Germany it was under 5€. It was also quite easy - go to a website, put in data from your car licence, pay via credit card, that’s it.

The big issue here is that they are kind of aggressive in weeding out older cars - you can’t get a crit d’air for cars older than 1997. That makes sense - those cars do not have modern emission tech and they are at least 28 years old. Some cities like Paris have even stricter rules and ban cars older than 2005.

What this meant was that your old Peugeot 205, which consume next to nothing as it is really light was forbidden, but a big Mercedes suv measured in liters/km was allowed without issues.

It’s really unintuitive, but small older cars are consuming more gasoline than newer, bigger cars. My old Opel Corsa D uses more liters per kilometer than my parents big SUV and has worse emissions. There have been real improvements in fuel economy and exhaust cleaning in the last 30-40 years. The issue with those big SUVs is that they could be even more efficient if there were smaller and lighter. A modern engine in a small car like the Peugeot 205 would really be something.

Let’s not start blaming old people - we have one problem in Europe right now in regards to housing. The massive urbanization going on. People are moving from rural areas into the bigger cities. And those cities haven’t built enough new housing for all residents. Just one example: In my town the university has grown - there are more people coming to study and they need housing, but nobody constructed additional dorms. Let’s not blame old people for staying in their homes, let’s blame the government for steering us into a totally predictable housing crisis here.

Denying the Jewish people their right to self-determination, e.g., by claiming that the existence of a State of Israel is a racist endeavor.

You mean this section?

I think the issue here is that it really is easy to say something pro-palestinian without even touching the IHRA. I’ve read it and it’s totally sensible:

“Antisemitism is a certain perception of Jews, which may be expressed as hatred toward Jews. Rhetorical and physical manifestations of antisemitism are directed toward Jewish or non-Jewish individuals and/or their property, toward Jewish community institutions and religious facilities.” To guide IHRA in its work, the following examples may serve as illustrations: Manifestations might include the targeting of the state of Israel, conceived as a Jewish collectivity. However, criticism of Israel similar to that leveled against any other country cannot be regarded as antisemitic. Antisemitism frequently charges Jews with conspiring to harm humanity, and it is often used to blame Jews for “why things go wrong.” It is expressed in speech, writing, visual forms and action, and employs sinister stereotypes and negative character traits. Contemporary examples of antisemitism in public life, the media, schools, the workplace, and in the religious sphere could, taking into account the overall context, include, but are not limited to: Calling for, aiding, or justifying the killing or harming of Jews in the name of a radical ideology or an extremist view of religion. Making mendacious, dehumanizing, demonizing, or stereotypical allegations about Jews as such or the power of Jews as collective — such as, especially but not exclusively, the myth about a world Jewish conspiracy or of Jews controlling the media, economy, government or other societal institutions. Accusing Jews as a people of being responsible for real or imagined wrongdoing committed by a single Jewish person or group, or even for acts committed by non-Jews. Denying the fact, scope, mechanisms (e.g. gas chambers) or intentionality of the genocide of the Jewish people at the hands of National Socialist Germany and its supporters and accomplices during World War II (the Holocaust). Accusing the Jews as a people, or Israel as a state, of inventing or exaggerating the Holocaust. Accusing Jewish citizens of being more loyal to Israel, or to the alleged priorities of Jews worldwide, than to the interests of their own nations. Denying the Jewish people their right to self-determination, e.g., by claiming that the existence of a State of Israel is a racist endeavor. Applying double standards by requiring of it a behavior not expected or demanded of any other democratic nation. Using the symbols and images associated with classic antisemitism (e.g., claims of Jews killing Jesus or blood libel) to characterize Israel or Israelis. Drawing comparisons of contemporary Israeli policy to that of the Nazis. Holding Jews collectively responsible for actions of the state of Israel. Antisemitic acts are criminal when they are so defined by law (for example, denial of the Holocaust or distribution of antisemitic materials in some countries). Criminal acts are antisemitic when the targets of attacks, whether they are people or property – such as buildings, schools, places of worship and cemeteries – are selected because they are, or are perceived to be, Jewish or linked to Jews. Antisemitic discrimination is the denial to Jews of opportunities or services available to others and is illegal in many countries.

I’m totally not ok with genocide. Not sure how you came to this conclusion. Take the holocaust: It make sense that pupils learn about it. But it does also make sense that they learn about it in the appropriate setting. In history or politics class, with a teacher who studied the subject and who has the time to do so. You really don’t want to tell students about the Holocaust in 5 minutes in gym class and that is exactly what happened here. Crazy that people think that it is “rolling with genocide” when a teacher is acting like that

The argument seems to be “please, Spain, deal with your local seperatist movement without pushing those efforts and costs onto us”

The 9/11 thing was ordered by the education ministeries and not something that one teacher decided to do. It was stupid and we did boycott it.

Casual racism really doesn’t help you here

The biggest issue here is that (nearly) all EU documents have to be translated into all official EU languages. It will be really expensive if spain introduces new official languages due to all the translators needed

I disagree. It’s totally not ok for a teacher to bring something like this into the classroom. Physics and chemistry class really is not the place to push political topics onto pupils and a five minute minute of silence is also not the way to discuss these topics with them. Not sure about France, but here in Germany there are classes on history or political sciences and those are the correct context to teach students about the middle east conflict: The teachers are qualified to teach about theses subjects and they have the time. Staging something like this will bring you into trouble in most civilized countries, because it is totally not ok.

I’m not sure here. Current life expectancy here in Germany is 78 for men and 83 for women. You can start your work life at 16 after 10 years of school and will do a 2-3 year appenticeship and if you retire at 67 and work without any breaks, unemployment, children and so on, you have 51 years in the workforce. Most people will have fewer, might do additional schooling and start their work life after university sometimes in their mid-twenties.

But even if we take those 51 years: A women will spend 16 + (83-67) = 32 years of their lifes outside the workforce. Even if you count out the time as child, those 16 years of retirement are 31% of your time spent working. If you want to keep your life standard, you somehow have to save up.

That sounds good, but what would that mean exactly? Then France recognises a palestinian state. It can’t be Hamas in Gaza, but maybe Fatah in the west bank? Fatah hasn’t any control over Gaza right now, so nothing there will change.