The cities and municipalities promotes rapid investment in the rural regions, especially in the areas of education and infrastructure. A division of society had to be prevented.

Marcel Heberlein, ARD-capital Studio

Uwe Brandl, the mayor of Abensberg, a small town in Bavaria. And you have to assume that he makes local politics is really like. He has even written a book about it. “The little mice community,” it says. Children from seven years to understand how the lowest level of policy work. In Berlin, Brandl explained now virtually the opposite.

As President of the German Association of cities and Gemeindebunds he looks at the new year. He talks mainly about what is not working, what is wrong with the Development of fast Internet in Germany municipalities: in the country, for example.”Everyone wants to 5G. No one wants to have the masts in front of the own door. This is a big Problem that we are in the municipal policy on a daily basis.”

Uwe Brandl, President of the German Association of towns and municipalities, to the challenges of the cities and communities
tagesschau24 12:00 PM, 03.01.2019

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