North Rhine-Westphalia

Anyway, Carl was a Schutzen guy and he worked at the.

North Rhineland, you know, when I first started with dogs, every state in Germany has a different dog program.

Oh, really? Hessen has one.

North Rhineland has one.

Berlin, I mean.

They're different

No, it's just a...

Jurisdictional, right? Yeah, yeah, by the territories.

For example, this was a story covered by Handelsblatt, the time in 2018 when seven AFD politicians traveled to Syria while the civil war was raging there.

One of them was an AFD member of the North Rhine-Westphalia State Parliament called Christian Blecks.

And a little over a week after he came back, Blecks argued that Syria could be designated, in the middle of a civil war, a safe country of origin.

The aim, obviously, was to try and return Syrian refugees from Germany to Syria.

That's what happened.

And then they raided his house in Nordwalde, which is in North Rhine-Westphalia, is in the region close to the Dutch border.

They raided his house and they raided several offices of companies that Mr. Hanning is involved with, and they confiscated a lot of material.

I think it was up to 14 or 15 computers, hard drives, 100 USB sticks, lots of paperwork.

And he says things which are unwise and reckless and which ultimately only strengthen the position of our adversaries, those forces in Germany which are gaining strength and want to see a complete change, of course.

So already they're talking about Hendrik Wurst, who is the Minister President of Nordrhein-Westfalen.

Now, he's clearly, I think, the man who's going to take over.

I don't know him very well, but he's already talking about banning the IFD.

I mean, depending on how a couple of the next elections go, the discussion around Mr. Merz at the helm.

will get stronger and then there's sort of either Mr. Mr. Sutter or his colleague from North Rhine-Westphalia one of them might make a move so that I think that at the latest this is what we will come back and look at yeah okay

well good talk then thanks everyone for tuning in and we'll catch you at the next one

bye

I've grown up all over the place, most of all as a kid in Germany.

So travelling from Nordrhein-Westfalen up to Liverpool for games was something we did once, maybe twice a year.

So my Everton experience actually until really until I moved here in 2019 was very patchy.

So there's not too many games to choose from.