Minister Merkel rejected demands by the Society for Raditation Protection to lower the limits by a tenfold factor. The newspaper reported, that numerous trains, especially in the eastern states and in Bavaria, will run less frequently beginning with the start of the upcoming winter travel season. This translates to longer waiting periods when passengers change trains. The newspaper cites lost income following the ICE accident at Enschede as the reason for the intended savings measure. A spokesperson of Bahn AG said that talks about cuts are taking place, but that no decisions had been reached yet.
ICE trains are to be used in their place.
As soon as the new ICE connection between Cologne and Frankfurt will be opened for service, flights between Frankfurt, Duesseldorf, Cologne-Bonn, Stuttgart, and Nuremberg will be cut. The Association for Environment and Environmental Protection referred to the collaboration between federal railways and Lufthansa as an ecologically blind flight. He demanded that all airports in the European Union impose limits on their growth. Muslim teacher may not teach wearing a veil The Muslim teacher Ludin will not be accepted into the teaching service in the state of Baden-Wuerttemberg because she insists on wearing a veil while teaching. Minister of Culture substantiated the decision in Stuttgart, stating that wearing a veil was not part of the religious duties of a Muslim woman.