If you want to plan development in a city like Leipzig, you need reasonably reliable figures on population trends. Every three years, therefore, Leipzig’s Office for Statistics and Elections publishes an updated population forecast. And not just as a figure, but as a concise, 70-page analysis. On Friday, 25 September, Mayor Ulrich Hörning presented the […]
Everything is getting more expensive. That’s true. Inflation is part of our lives. The only question is: what is actually driving these rising prices? And which factor is causing the most dramatic fluctuations? The latest publication from the State Statistical Office merely hints at this, reporting that Saxony’s annual inflation rate for August 2026 is […]
Unemployment rose in the Leipzig Employment Agency’s district in August 2026, according to figures released by the Leipzig Employment Agency at the end of the month. 33,272 people were registered as unemployed, 683 more (2 per cent) than in July and 2,344 more (8 per cent) than a year ago. The unemployment rate stood at […]
Everyone is talking about the feared election victory of the AfD. But hardly anyone is addressing the fact that this growing support for the populists may have very real causes. Namely, policies at federal and state level that completely ignore the interests of the public. This is now even evident in a survey by the […]
The demographic decline in Saxony is now also becoming apparent in the employment statistics. Whilst the number of full-time employees with German citizenship is beginning to dwindle – because the size of the incoming age cohorts has halved – the proportion of foreign employees is growing. And that is only the figure for full-time workers. […]
Everyone’s talking about the baby boomers, even blaming them for everything that’s gone wrong in Germany. And at the same time, fears are being stoked about the time when these large cohorts will retire. And what then? The Berlin Institute for Population and Development is also giving serious thought to the baby boomers and their […]
More fruit, nuts and vegetables, less meat and less sugar: this is precisely what all nutritionists recommend. It has little to do with what Germans currently eat on average. In recent years, central Germany has been missing out on more than a year’s worth of rainfall – that is, more than 600 mm. Germany is […]
In recent days, two ministers from the current government have failed to go down well with affected members of the public – who are having to learn to cope with the heat and drought – due to their flippant remarks about the weather. Due to insufficient rainfall and rising temperatures, the soil is drying out […]
Meanwhile, the fourth major heatwave of 2026 is sweeping across Germany and Europe, with temperatures exceeding 40 °C – levels never before recorded at local weather stations in the past 150 years. What is particularly worrying and critical is the increasing number of consecutive tropical nights with temperatures of over 20, 25 or even 30 […]
For almost 30 years, Germany too has been pursuing financial voodoo economics, loosely based on the trickle-down theory, which – without any statistical basis whatsoever – claims that the economy will flourish if taxes on the rich are cut. And some of the prosperity generated in this way would then ‘trickle down’ to those below. […]
No one will be able to say in future that they didn’t know. That they lacked the facts about the 2026 elections. Because the facts are out there, live and available to anyone who’s even slightly curious about their own reality. And all presented with a touch of humour, too. Because that’s exactly what the […]
The current Merz government at federal level did, after all, get off to a start with a 500-billion-euro package that had been approved by the previous Bundestag. A huge sum of money with which the Federal Republic could have really fuelled investment across the country. But the money is being spread thinly over ten years, […]
Whilst heatwaves in Europe, North America and South Asia are claiming the lives of tens of thousands of people, the largest oil and gas companies expect their profits to double between the first and second quarters of 2026. Calculations also show that their historical emissions have significantly fuelled the frequency and severity of heatwaves this […]
Sometimes you just have to show people. Especially when Uncle Herbert, sitting at the family dinner table, once again lets his gut feeling take over, claiming that it used to be just as hot in the past and that the climate has always been changing anyway. But gut feeling has nothing to do with facts. […]
The energy transition is working. And sensible governments would simply promote it wherever possible. Even in Saxony, where for years the mantra of the all-important ‘domestic lignite’ prevailed, the transformation of the energy landscape is having a positive impact. After all, the less lignite that is burnt to generate energy, the lower energy consumption will […]
In September 2026, Saxony-Anhalt will elect a new state parliament. The AfD stands a good chance of becoming the largest party there. But what would less Europe, less immigration and lower levels of public investment mean for the people? A brief study by the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW) highlights a now well-known AfD […]
If the current federal government gets its way with its pension plans, it will become even harder for many people who have actually reached retirement age to make ends meet. They are already having to get by on meagre pensions. But rather than having to beg the local authorities for help, more and more older […]
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