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Almost two-thirds of the motorists surveyed (63.9 percent) could "rather not" or "definitely not" imagine giving up their cars for the sake of environmental protection, according to a civey poll for the "tagesspiegel" newspaper. 27.7 percent, on the other hand, considered this conceivable. At the same time, more than three-quarters of all respondents thought the federal government was doing too little for local transport or cyclists. Around 2500 people were surveyed.

The survey showed that green (a good 60 percent) and left-wing (just under 50 percent) voters in particular were prepared to give up most of their seats. On the other hand, 73.3 percent of CDU/CSU supporters and 80.3 percent of FDP voters find this inconceivable – among afd voters, the figure is as high as 86.9 percent. In the countryside in particular, hardly anyone wants to – or is able to – do without a car, while in the cities more than half do. Overall, the readiness in the east of germany is lower.

Spring sunshine awakens bamberger gastro scene to bustling activity. Some local communities are staying the course, but new meeting places are being created. As in one of bamberg’s most prominent locations. Standing beer on the upper brucke: the brewery kaiserdom now invites you to it. The rathausschanke is serving again.

"At weekends, window bar goes down well, guests enjoy beer on the bridge", explains marketing spokeswoman sabine heinel. "The concept consists of a bratwurst house with seven different bratwurst versions", she promotes the offer from the wild boar sausage to the currysobe – and also a vegetarian variant is there. In addition, also non-alcoholic, cake and coffee. The brewery, which is over 300 years old, has rebuilt the interior of the traditional house in a mixture of modern and traditional. The building, for a long time in the property of the imperial cathedral, was in the past leased out in different ways. "Now we run it under our own name", heinel reports.

"Over the years, new pilgrims have joined the group, which has grown steadily and has numbered around 250 pilgrims in each of the last ten years", female edgar denner. He has been a pilgrim since the millennium, after the death of oswald bauer, and has been a pilgrim himself since the beginning.

"You spurt your limits"

"There is evidence that the levy was allowed to be 5 cents per kilowatt hour," said the energy expert of the verbraucherzentrale bundesverband, holger krawinkel, to the deutsche presse agentur in berlin. With the levy laid down in the renewable energies act (EEG), consumers pay for the demand for energy from the sun, biomass and wind through the price of electricity. Krawinkel therefore brought a reduction or suspension of the electricity tax into play.

This year the levy is 3.59 cents per kilowatt hour. For a household with a consumption of 3500 kilowatt hours, the demand costs add up to 125 euros per year. A deficit of 1.5 to two billion euros could build up in the pay-as-you-go account by the end of the year, said krawinkel. There are several reasons for this. "On the one hand, we have already had much more wind and solar energy production in the spring than was assumed."This is due to the weather, but also to the construction of new solar plants. The government therefore wants to reduce the requirement by up to 30 percent. But the states are blocking this because they fear for their solar companies.