The Lidl affair and Transrapid
I am now a subscriber of taz for some days and I more and more like this left-winged alternative paper. Their style of writing is funny but also serious enough.
To teach you something about what’s going on in Germany today (I promoise, today will be the only day I’m doing this…), I have to start with the Transrapid, a German promosing high-technology in the railway sector. The Bundesland “State of Bavaria” ordered one of this Transrapids (trains) for a new railway line between Munich airport and central station. But the contract was cancelled today because the costs went into ad infinitum (from 1.6 billion to 3.1 billion) and Bavaria cancelled the contract.
The second red hot topic in Germany is the Lidl treatment of staff. You will find some more inforation here:
In March 2008 the German news magazine Der Stern came up with a cover story reporting systematic surveillance of Lidl workers, including most intimate details of their private affairs.