But the national government has a lot of money and power, while local and regional governments generally have less.

Anyhow, a lot of the now "private" housing in big buildings in German cities (also former western germany) WAS 'nationalised' until late '90s - '00s. In many cases it was (is) the property of a "city social housing construction/renting company" which has local/regional businesses, banks and political representation on the board. Only the last 20-30 years did these semi-public companies start to sell it all out (after reunification of Germany it sped up a lot). The argument was (and still is) that the renovation of a lot of these 'older' big apartment buildings was too expensive for those 'social' companies to bear, and by selling it fresh private capital would pour in and the old buildings would get renovated. In many cases renters got to stay where they were after sale to private investors for decades still and even keeping their old rent amount for all that time. Until the owner suddenly decides to "seriously upgrade the building": then they can kick everyone out relatively easily and set new prices after renovation. But in reality a lot of those "seriously upgrade" kicking renters out situations was just that: everyone out, a little bit of paint but no serious upgrading, and afterwards every apartment has new rent contracts for way more money. Often also because apartments were split into more units. Result for many inhabitants: being forced to leave the housing they've lived in for many decades, forced to pay higher prices, but get similar or worse housing quality. It's very very reasonable that in cities where this is a very widespread situation, renters are super pissed off at companies like "Vonovia" which dominate entire neighbourhoods and give 0 fucks about renters, only about their shareholders. Germany has a very high % of home renters and a pretty low % of home owners, especially in larger cities.

No rebranding needed, that's why they're not becoming a member but an associated member.

Genau. Man hätte hier stattdessen besser 2,5 + 1,7 Milliarden Euro investiert in Energiewende / Verkehrswende und in die Zukunft... Gießkanne Tankrabatt ist so kurzsichtig dumm. Das Einzige, was merz interessiert, ist das er selber Kanzler bleibt... Er treibt die Wirtschaft noch schneller in den Ruin.

Unglaublich dumm. Literally burning cash.

But it's easier to get a Bomberman in the middle of a crowded place undetected until too late

Fine argument against people trying to have their 5th kid while barely taking care of nr 1 to 4, but it is bordering criminal to say people should be rich before being allowed (ethically) to have a child. In a proper society, no child is left behind. Housing, food, education are basic human rights, and you're making it sound okay for those things to only be available to wealthy people. Trying to forge late stage capitalism justification.

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Nee, täuscht nicht, meiner Meinung nach nehmen Motorradfahrer deutlich viel mehr Risiko im Verkehr. Sehr viele "Unfälle" mit Motorrad sind Leopards ate my face Situationen. Viele Motorradunfälle sind keine Unfälle, es sind nur die Folgen von riesigen Selbstüberschätzung und Dummheit.

What Brits actually look like

I'm reading this while sitting in a rather new electric Renault Zoë where the windows in the back are manual!

With those other good options the building owners are often against. They fear damage to building from roots or plants attaching directly to the facade, although there are many plants where that's not an issue

The french have always been very chauvinist about their language. They do not like English, as they view french as an equally great world language. It was likely somehow obligated to have an English version, and subsequently a somewhat conscious choice by some employees or board of directors to not keep it stocked as well as the French version.

Also, it is over tourism. There are so many tourists people are sick of them. It's not a french but a human thing. I've seen "touris raus" in Berlin too... The downside of raising housing prices etc are by a significant part of population valued more than the economic advantage of more local consumption (and I get that).