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Many people remembered that the architect repeatedly and at great length emphasized that the project was within the planned budget. At the inauguration, there was still talk of a slight overrun of four percent, which would be fully borne by the church community. Now the question for the municipal council was whether, and if so how much, the municipality should contribute to this shortfall.

One point in particular of the detailed list of cost overruns sparked a lively discussion at the meeting on monday evening: all members of the committee reacted unanimously with disagreement to the increase in planning costs of around 35,000 euros.

German government and european central bank (ECB) warn against relaxing the rules and insist on strict requirements. Meanwhile, negotiations in athens on debt cut go round in circles. Talks with the international banking association remained without concrete results and were postponed until wednesday, according to finance minister evangelos venizelos. Venizelos would not say whether he was optimistic.

ECB executive board member jorg asmussen argued in a letter to negotiators from the 17 euro and 9 other eu countries that the latest version of the "fiscal pact" treaty was a "substantial watering down of earlier drafts". Criticisms include weakened controls and expanded exemptions for deficit and debt reduction.

The british international booker literature prize goes to dutch author marieke lucas rijneveld for her novel "the discomfort of evening. At the age of 29, she is the youngest author ever to receive this prestigious award.

"I’m as proud as a cow with seven udders," rijneveld said in a first reaction via video message on wednesday. She shares the with 50.000 pounds (just under 56.000 euros) prize with michele hutchison, who translated the work into english.

This is the result of the report presented to the city council by josef muller as managing director of the municipal company. Muller is confident, however, that the profit zone will still be reached if it is possible to bring more customers into the heating network as soon as possible.

So far, they are lagging behind their own expectations: starting with three customers, the circle increased to nine over the course of four years. Accordingly, the efficiency rate, which was below 50 percent in 2010, improved to 71.5 percent.

In volkach town hall, 1. Upstairs, room 16, christian schwab straightens his rolled-up arms one last time. It’s the final spurt in the state and district elections, and the election clerk of the VG volkach is taking care of the "operational business", because he is the one who has all the threads running together. And that in addition to his other work in department 11, public order and safety.

Sunday the last, monday the first

On election sunday, after 16 hours on duty, he is the last to turn off the lights in the town hall and the first to turn them on again on monday. But election sunday is only the penultimate step in a long process that began in december with the notification of the need for ballot papers. "This is how the printers prepare themselves," says schwab, looking at the checklist, which seems to be as thick as a catalog.

The federal criminal police office (BKA) is to receive more personnel for the fight against clan crime. Federal interior minister horst seehofer (CSU) told "bild": "the law-abiding citizen is seen as a "victim", german society as prey and our laws and rules as non-binding."

Against it now something is to be done. The aim of the new federal-land initiative to combat clan crime, or "BLICK" for short, is to uncover the structures, working methods and interconnections of criminal clans, reports the newspaper. Armed with this information, the countries on the ground should increase the search pressure on the clans.

The city of kitzingen is investing another 20 million euros in 2019 alone, most of it in construction projects. But the chamber also warns the city council not to decide on even more rough projects in the aftermath. But it is not only the money that is lacking; the city administration has another problem: too few staff in the building department.

Projects are being implemented slowly

Georg fahrenschon’s days at the helm of the german savings banks and giro association (dsgv) are probably over. In view of the tax affair of the top savings bank boss, the regional associations are exerting a lot of pressure behind the scenes.

As the german press agency learned on sunday from savings bank circles, the 49-year-old is to draw the consequences and resign from his office. "He has received the clear signal that things can’t go on like this," it hailed. Decision expected from powerful association president by tuesday.