Three million people in Germany were out of work in August, fifty four thousand more than in July, and the unemployment rate is now six and a half percent. The fund that pays them is carrying a gap of about ten billion euros. No contribution rise has been announced and no law has been passed, but gaps in that system have historically closed in only two ways, and both of them arrive on a payslip.
0:00 Intro
0:35 Three million out of work and a ten billion gap
2:46 Germany taxes sugary drinks
4:08 The sick note from day one
5:27 A week before the Saxony Anhalt vote
6:42 Malaria outbreak at Frankfurt airport
• The three million figure and the ten billion gap, and why nobody is putting them in the same sentence
• Germany’s new tax on sugary drinks and the four billion euros the budget expects from it
• The plan to require a doctor’s note from day one, and the 1.2 percent that started the argument
• The week before the Saxony Anhalt vote: a ban demand, police searches and a hundred and fifty shuttered businesses
• A malaria outbreak among staff at Frankfurt airport
Europe: Facts. Meanings. The numbers on the day they are published, not the week the headline catches up.
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