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Just in time for New Year's Eve, the Czech Republic has significantly tightened the rules for the sale and use of firecrackers and rockets. A corresponding law came into force in Germany's neighboring country on Monday. Among other things, it prohibi ..
For around 3.5 million AOK policyholders in Saxony and Thuringia, the health insurance contribution will remain unchanged in the coming year. The additional contribution will remain stable at 3.1 percent, AOK Plus announced after a meeting of the adm ..
The industry in Saxony is hoping that the reduction in VAT on food in the gastronomy sector on January 1st will be a "liberating blow". This will help to maintain gastronomic diversity, explains Axel Klein, Managing Director of the Hotel and Restaura ..
A disc jockey plays the first verse of the Deutschlandlied at a Bundeswehr Christmas party in Delitzsch - an investigation is now underway. "Extensive disciplinary investigations" have been initiated and the checks also include the civilian service p ..
The newly elected mayor of the municipality of Hermsdorf in the Ore Mountains has been delayed due to a mishap. The municipality had failed to publish the election results of the mayoral election in the official gazette, according to the district of ..
In view of tight budgets and high investment requirements, the deputy minister presidents of Saxony and Thuringia are questioning rigid positions in financial policy. "The most absurd thing you can do economically is to save into the crisis and thus ..
The mayor of Brand-Erbisdorf (Central Saxony district) is said to have seriously injured a man in a hunting accident. According to the police, Martin Antonow (non-party) and a 20-year-old man had arranged to go hunting in the district of Langenau on ..
Saxony is providing an additional twelve million euros for urgently needed infrastructure projects in the new year. One focus is on the planning and construction of bridges and roads, the Ministry of Infrastructure and Regional Development announced. ..
More than seven months after the originally announced deadline, around 150 refugees who had previously lived in Kenya have arrived in Germany by plane. According to the German Press Agency, many of them come from South Sudan, some from Congo, others ..
The Saxon SPD has a new state executive director from the new year. Dresden city councillor Stefan Engel will take up the post, the party announced. The 33-year-old succeeds Jens Wittig, who is leaving the post after eleven years.Engel is an experien ..
There is a lot of work to be done in Bad Schandau that hardly anyone sees. Rubbish bins have to be emptied, paths checked and flower beds replanted. "We deliver the quality expected of a spa town - but we can hardly afford it," says Andrea Wötzel, th ..