Today in Rhein-Main: Arrived in the heart of Europe

Good evening,

not only is there a new world champion, the football year 2022 also ended with another highlight for Eintracht Frankfurt on Sunday.

Ten to 15 other high-rise locations in Frankfurt will soon be aiming high, but only if Frankfurt's city politics step up a gear.

And: The pace at which the debts of future generations are growing in Hesse is also too high.

Carsten Knop

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unity:

Exactly seven months after the European Cup night in Seville, the team received an award at the athletes' gala in Baden-Baden.

On May 18, the Eintracht professionals made club history when they defeated Glasgow Rangers on penalties in the Europa League final in the Andalusian capital - now, on December 18, players and coaches are named Team of the Year 2022 for this win been honored.

It is a special honor that only five other Bundesliga teams have received in the long history of the “Sportsman of the Year” election.

The majority of the approximately 3,500 sports journalists who are organized in the Association of German Sports Journalists and who vote on the athlete and the team of the year voted for Eintracht.

decided - a vote with charisma for a team that caused a sensation throughout Europe.

Apparently unity has arrived at the heart of Europe, or always has been, depending on your perspective.

Discord:

The project still bears the name "High-rise Development Plan 2021".

But not only the reference year is long gone;

no more drafts will be published in 2022 either.

Although the technical investigations into the further development of the plan, which dates back to 2008, have been completed, there is still political debate about the locations for new towers.

Planning department head Mike Josef (SPD) recently informed the coalition factions of the Greens, SPD, FDP and Volt about the current status.

According to information from the FAZ, ten to 15 new high-rise locations are to be identified.

But not all are undisputed.

There should be an agreement at the beginning of next year, we remain curious.

Pension burden:

The Hessian debts of future generations are increasing much faster than equivalent values ​​are being created for them.

The state audit office announced this in its most recent report and pointed out that the figures for the so-called core budget are only one side of the coin.

In the overall financial statement, which also takes future burdens into account, the so-called negative equity grew to almost 129 billion euros last year.

The pensions to be paid for civil servants are primarily responsible for this, said the President of the Audit Office, Walter Wallmann.

And

a 37-year-old man was stabbed to death in an argument in front of a kiosk on Friday evening on Kapellenstraße in Flörsheim in the Main-Taunus district.

The alleged perpetrator, a 32-year-old man of Syrian origin, was then arrested nearby

it took 36 months before the horses returned to the festival hall this weekend.

Due to the corona pandemic, equestrian sports enthusiasts had to wait a long time to finally be able to follow dressage and jumping competitions under the Christmas-decorated dome

Attorney Sylvia Schenk is internationally active as a fighter against corruption and for human rights.

At the end of the World Cup, she talks about lessons learned from her visit to Qatar and the lack of sensitivity on the part of the Germans.

Best regards and have a good start into the week

Yours, Carsten Knop

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for Monday

Heavily cloudy with rain, danger of black ice in the morning, rain then decreases over the course of the day with maximum temperatures around 3 degrees.

have birthday

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Monday 19 December

Ralf Bedranowsky

, from 2015 to August 2022 CEO of DVB Bank SE, Frankfurt (64);

, director of the English Theatre, Frankfurt (59);

, CEO of Brain Biotech AG, Zwingenberg (58);

(SPD), treasurer and head of cultural affairs for the city of Wiesbaden (57);

, President of the Fresenius University of Applied Sciences, Idstein (55);

, Managing Director of the Kerckhoff Clinic, Bad Nauheim (54);

(Die Grünen), State Secretary in the Hessian Ministry for Science and Art, Chairwoman of the Culture Committee of the Kulturfonds Frankfurt/Rhein-Main (47).

Information on events can be found here.