Respect for service to mankind

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The caritas association for the district of kronach has been in existence for 40 years. In the context of the jubilee year, an anointing of the sick service took place in zeyern. Invited by regional dean thomas teuchgraber, the caritas social station steinwiesen and the parish council of zeyern.

The social station offered a transport service to the church, which was gladly accepted. Numerous seniors came to the service in the parish church of st. John the baptist. Leonhard to receive the sacrament of strengthening. Regional dean thomas teuchgraber gave everyone a heartfelt burial – especially the newly ordained deacon markus grasser as well as the new pastoral assistant for the pastoral area of kronach, sarah-maria rock-damschen, who joined in the service. In his sermon, the regional dean explained how fitting it was that the 22. September deacon markus grasser celebrated his first service as a deacon in the pastoral area of kronach in zeyern with the sick and joyfully proclaimed the gospel for the first time. A deacon, for example, promises at his ordination to spend his life caring for the poor, the sick and the needy. He thanked the employees of the social station in steinwiesen for putting this basic ecclesiastical principle of service to the sick and weak into practice in their work. For this, he expressed his deepest respect and appreciation to them.

The pastor strengthened the service participants with good words to better bear the burdens of everyday life and aging and administered the sacrament of anointing of the sick.

The head of the social station, brigitte wunder, as well as employees of the caritas social station steinwiesen recited the prayers for the fur and the invocations especially in case of illness, which are prayed during the daily sacramental procession in lourdes.

Afterwards the guests went to the autumnally decorated parish hall, where beate kotschenreuther and the parish team had already prepared everything for a cozy coffee drink. Many happy faces and shining eyes were to be seen. All those present were very happy to be able to get together again and exchange ideas, even if their paths had perhaps already diverged a little due to age. The helpers were also very happy about the all-round successful celebration and about having brought joy to their fellow human beings.

Heavy goods inspection on the a3: 25 violations

A few decades ago there was a standing term "concerted action". It matches exactly what happened at the aurach-nord rest stop: police, customs and the veterinary office of the city of erlangen checked trucks weighing more than 3.5 tons.

"Waves out especially trucks that look like they have a cow aggregate", thomas zwiener of the veterinary office calls out to police chief inspector willy eger. Eger and his young colleagues are responsible for directing vehicles to be inspected from the highway to the rest area. "Many more pass by than we accommodate here. That's why we have to choose, by feel and by experience", says eger.

A truck rolls into a parking bay, very carefully, because the lane is already quite narrow for two giant trucks. The inscription gives it away: gemusetransport from knoblauchsland. But there is nothing for the veterinarians to do here: the vehicle only transports empty crates back.

Turkish asked
Right behind it comes a refrigerated truck from turkey. His cargo is frozen rainbow trout. While police officers check the papers of the vehicle and driver, the latter opens the cargo area. Zwiener sticks a thermometer between the packages and reads off: minus 24 degrees. His colleague, who speaks turkish, asks the driver if he knows all the regulations for transporting frozen goods. He confirms to her that turkey requires even some minus degrees more than in germany. The colleague enters the information and the results of the measurement in a form.

Like the erlanger, other veterinary offices also enter their data in this way during comparable inspections. According to zwiener, the data is then used to compile statistics on how the cold chain is secured in food transports through and within germany. Good! It is allowed to say so after the random tests at the resting place. No one was killed and no driver was found to be unaware of the regulations.

A small truck of sprinter class comes in. Because his load is sealed, the police call the veterinarians. Certainly a false alarm! It concerns a medicine transport with exact papers. A delivery for a chinese restaurant is the next case. Meat and vegetables are separate, but in between there is used packaging. "This can't be happening", explains zwiener. "Foodstuffs must be transported in such a way that they cannot affect each other. This also applies to other things in the car." and he immediately thinks of such unsightly things as insect larvae on the old cardboard. "So it happens that a guest finds half a cockroach in his salad", he says independently of the current control.

A dog for tobacco products
Customs dog ronja is led past by her keeper. "Breed curbstone" joke his colleagues as he takes the dog in his arms and climbs a ladder with it to the load e of the truck stopped next to it. Ronja has nothing to do with food. She specializes in tobacco products. Untaxed cigarettes are known to be a popular smuggled good. Upstairs, the dog slips cunningly between the various boxes and works his way to the front. After a while her master calls her back and carries her down again. Ronja has reported nothing suspicious.

Someone else joins this control group. Veterinarian annett raschke. Their speciality is transport with live animals. But she gets nothing to do on that day. Slaughter cattle outnumbered in their task. "But once we also had mouse. Laboratory mice", she says.

Another food transport from turkey. Temperature control again. Also in order. Zwiener notices only milk potion bottles that do not have a german label. Also nothing exciting, because they are not intended for a receiver in germany.

"A problem for us are sometimes trips from bulgaria to england. The operators of restaurants there buy food in their home country just as they do in supermarkets and load it up in such a motley fashion."

customs against illegal work
A dark car drives in the middle of the hummis. The light in his rear window reads: "police, please follow". At the wheel is simon denzler. He makes the "distance measurement from a moving vehicle". He is known for his regular checks on the local freeways, where he uses video recordings to check whether trucks are driving closer than the permitted 50 meters to other cars. "This applies to all vehicles over 3.5 tons traveling faster than 50 kilometers per hour. A verstob costs 100 euros", says denzler.

There is no sign of hecticness or excitement in the entire closed truck parking area of the rest area. The checks go on: vehicle documents are checked. Meanwhile, another policeman checks the condition of tires and brakes. In between the customs officers are called in. They are not primarily concerned with smuggling goods, but with unauthorized additional tanks for diesel and with people who work illegally. By the way, they found out that a professional driver was also receiving unemployment benefit II.

Something else was going on in parallel, reports operations manager christian deisel. A speed check. To guide out and above all the "pilots" to secure, a limitation was arranged before the rest stop entrance. In them "tappten 325 cars. 47 they disregarded so much, that a driving ban is necessary.

Emergency aid for euro crisis countries - and criticism of merkel

After a 13-hour-long war of nerves, german chancellor angela merkel (CDU) relented in brussel on friday and accommodated the euro worriers. Some partner countries were in a "very complicated situation" because they had to pay high interest rates on their bonds, merkel defended the decision against criticism from home.

The summit decided that crisis countries will be able to access the euro bailout fund more easily in the future – and will have to meet fewer conditions in the process. The ESM rescue fund is also to be able to grant direct aid to banks from highly indebted countries under certain conditions. This will then also relieve the burden on their national budgets. All 27 eu countries agreed on a 120 billion euro growth package to boost the crippled economy. Almost half of it comes from the EU budget.

Agreement reached after a turbulent night session. The countries of spain and italy, which are under pressure from the financial markets, are playing high stakes. The chancellor accommodated her opponents, italy’s prime minister mario monti and spain’s prime minister mariano rajoy. On another point, merkel remained firm: after her clear no, common bonds (eurobonds) do not appear in the summit communique. The chancellor defended the decisions: "we have remained true to our philosophy of no performance without counterperformance". France’s president francois hollande, on the other hand, continues to see eurobonds as a prospect.

Eurogroup head jean-claude juncker expressed satisfaction with summit outcome. "This is not about blackmail, it’s not about winners, defeated, winners, losers, we’re making a joint effort here."Chancellor merkel also drew a positive balance: "it was an intensive council that decided a lot."

The decisions of the brussels summit on bank aid are hotly disputed in the berlin coalition government. Asked whether direct financial aid from the euro bailout fund ESM to ailing banks in affected states was covered by the draft for the bundestag, merkel said: "yes, 100 percent."She reaffirmed that any changes to the ESM must be approved by the bundestag.

In berlin this evening, the bundestag and bundesrat were scheduled to vote on the crisis fund ESM and the fiscal compact. A two-thirds majority is sought for both votes – which is why the opposition had to be involved.

The "leaders" also agreed to deepen the euro preservation union in the long term. There should be a concrete roadmap by the end of the year; as early as october, eu summit head herman van rompuy wants to present a first balance sheet. "This is an important breakthrough," the belgian said.

In view of the worsening euro crisis, a reform project is being pushed ahead under high pressure: european banking supervision. It should be placed with the european central bank (ECB), which would thereby gain in power. Merkel spoke of a "super supervisory authority" for europe’s banks. ECB chief mario draghi said the ECB will "take on tasks in this supervision".

The long-term reform of the fiscal union also includes a so-called fiscal union, in which members will have to give up some of their sovereign rights over their budgets in order to allow central control by the EU. In germany, van rompuy’s proposals were sharply criticized in some quarters.

According to the summit declaration, the heads of government also agreed to make flexible use of the existing instruments of the EFSF and ESM aid funds to provide emergency aid to countries such as italy and spain. The main issue is the purchase of government bonds. "We reaffirm that it is crucial to break the vicious circle between banks and sovereign bonds," the statement reads.

Countries with good budgetary management can receive support from the EFSF and ESM bailout funds from the summer onwards – without additional austerity programs – in order to calm the financial markets. All they have to do is follow the budget recommendations of the EU commission. Details to be discussed by euro finance ministers on 9. July set.

The ESM crisis fund is to be allowed to provide direct support to banks in the future. Until now this was not possible according to the ESM treaty, but the money should be transferred to the government of the respective country. This would increase the debt of the states, which is why italy and spain protested against it.

France’s president hollande expects to introduce a financial tax before the end of the year. After the failure of a group effort involving all 27 EU member states, at least nine countries, including germany, france and austria, are now leading the way in a small group.

The summit also decided that the european patent court will be headquartered in paris. Subsidiaries will be located in munich and london. The office in london will deal with administrative matters, and jurisdiction will be divided among the three locations according to subject matter, EU diplomats explained.

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