2024-01-03 09:16:58
CARMEN VALERO
Updated Wednesday, January 3, 2024 – 08:16
Possession and consumption of cannabis, for example, will be exempt from punishment for adults from April 1, 2024, with some restrictions
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Qu. This 2024 begins in Germany with many open questions, without general budgets and with a long list of new laws, which includes some decriminalization for adults of the cultivation and possession of cannabis.
Por qu. The rules that were agreed upon last year come into force, so the interesting thing will be to see what will happen in a year that begins without general budgets and with a chancellor on a tightrope.
Germany starts the year with a chancellor, Olaf Scholz, in the basement of the polls and the opposition calling for early elections. Also without general budgets, with half of Lower Saxony and Thuringia in a state of alarm due to floods and with a list of new laws.
The possession and use of cannabisFor example, they will remain exempt from punishment for adults from April 1, 2024, with some restrictions. In the future, they will be able to possess up to 25 grams of cannabis for personal use, and the possession of up to 50 grams and up to three female flowering plants in private cultivation will be permitted.
Possession of 30 grams or more will only be punishable in public areas and 60 grams or more in private areas. By then, the cost of CO2 will rise from 30 to 45 euros per ton and with it diesel, gasoline, natural gas and heating oil will rise.
In July, the single use plastic bottles and the tetrapaks must have a non-removable cap. Fixed caps will be mandatory for PET beverage containers with a volume of up to three liters, that is, for water, soft drinks and milk. The background to this measure is a new EU directive aimed at reducing plastic waste in the environment. For the same reason, the Germans They must pay a deposit of 25 cents for milk and milk drinks packaged in plastic bottles. Previously, these drinks were exempt from the mandatory deposit.
For those who waive the refund, we invite them to leave the containers in the bins, on the porch or on the street benches because in this country there are almost 400,000 people who survive by collecting empty bottles. The cap of plastic bottles must be screw-on.
Las social aid for singles will increase by 12%, from 502 to 563 euros, which does not please the conservatives of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) nor the liberals of the FDP, although the latter are part of the Government. It will also raise the minimum wage of 12 to 12.41 euros per hour. The maximum limit for mini-jobs will go from 520 to 538 euros per month starting in May and an increase in pensions is expected in July.
The list of new regulations is copious, but since they were agreed in 2023, the interesting thing is to know what will happen in 2024. The trickiest issue will be to carry out the general budgets. After the ruling of the Federal Constitutional Court, which declared the Government’s debt tricks null and void, it remains to be seen if the coalition will be able to hold out until the 2025 elections.
He electoral calendar He also foresees the occasional political earthquake. After the European elections in June, in September elections are held in states of Saxony, Thuringia and Brandenburg. In all, the populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) is ahead in the polls. The regional branches of the AfD in Saxony and Thuringia have been classified by the respective Offices for the Protection of the Constitution, internal intelligence agencies in these federal states, as far-right movements.
The German menu 2024 will also not lack numerous debates that will accentuate the many differences that already exist in Scholz’s tripartite and that will resonate in the street. One of them is the reinstatement of compulsory military service and another about prohibition of prostitution.
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