BERLIN coach madison wristlet small , Sept. 17 (Xinhua) -- Three fourths of local governments in Germany want to increase taxes and fees in the next two years, said the consulting firm Ernst & Young (EY) on Wednesday in Berlin.
Meanwhile, one third of German cities or towns wants to scale back its benefits.
These are the findings of a recent study of the auditing and consulting firm EY, based on a survey of 300 German municipalities as well as an analysis of the debt situation of municipalities with at least 20,000 inhabitants.
"The fees screw is getting more tightened," said EY expert Hans-Peter Busson in Berlin on Wednesday. "This trend has been going strong for years, with no end in sight."
According to the EY coach legacy wristlet small , the ongoing financial crisis prompted many German municipalities to keep turning the fees screw on a significant scale.
As the survey showed, in 2013, almost every other German municipality with more than 20,000 inhabitants has recorded a budget deficit.
Only 37 percent of municipalities expect a declining debt for the next three years, while every other municipality predicts an increase in their debt.
Busson pointed out, parochialism prevented cost reductions and efficiency improvements, as he said coach poppy wallet black , municipalities can share sports.
Busson suggested: "If municipalities sell wisely to corporate investments, land or real estate investors, it brings not only revenue for the city treasury. Above all, the municipalities can stimulate growth, and strengthen the local economy."
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during an event highlighting efforts to battle the opioid crisis at the White House in Washington D.C., the United States, on Oct. 26 coach legacy wallet black , 2017. Trump on Thursday declared the opioid crisis "a national public health emergency" in the United States and vowed to "build a wall" to confront the growing scourge. (XinhuaTing Shen)
WASHINGTON, Oct. 26 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday declared the opioid crisis "a national public health emergency" in the United States and vowed to "build a wall" to confront the growing scourge.
"This epidemic is a national health emergency," Trump said, noting the opioid crisis has affected more than 2 million Americans nationwide, and the number continues to rise.
More Americans are dying from drug overdoses today than from gun homicides and vehicle incidents alike, he lamented, "The United States is by far the largest consumers of this drug (opioids)".
"No state has been spared coach value spree $109 , and no demographic has been untouched." he continued in an address at the White House, accompanied by first lady Melania Trump.
"As Americans, we cannot allow this to continue...We can be the generation that ends the opioid epidemic." the president said.
The key to tackle the problem, Trump said, is for people not to get hooked on drugs in the first place. Part of that comes through education, and teaching people that they are propping up violence through participating in the drug market.
Meanwhile, he promised his administration will spend "lots of money" to find non-addictive painkiller.
The president also said lawsuits lie ahead for "bad actors coach value spree $169 ," which could mean drug companies, amid national fighting to curb the epidemic.
A final report will come in from the opioid commission next week, Trump said, on recommendations for dealing with the crisis which he called "national shame" and "human tragedy".
With Trump's declaration, the U.S. federal government will waive some regulations, give states more flexibility in how they use federal funds and expand the use of telemedicine treatment, according to White House aids who briefed reporters on Thursday morning.
"Addressing it will require all of our effort coach city tote large , and it will require us to confront the crisis in all of its real complexity," said Trump, who has long-promised to address the epidemic that claimed more than 64,000 American lives in 2016 alone.
However, a public health emergency is not the same as the national emergency Trump initially promised to announce in August, local analysts noted.
Unlike a national emergency, a public health emergency declared by the White House does not free up Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) funding. Instead coach hampton tote leather , it has to rely on existing funding to be redirected under the Public Service Act.
Furthermore, the emergency will only last 90 days, though can be repeatedly renewed every 90 days by the White House.
The last time that a national public health emergency of this scope was declared in the United States was in 2009 in response to the H1N1 influenza virus.
Drug overdoses are now the leading cause of injury-related death in the country. Opioid use, which has skyrocketed in the United States since the turn of the century, is to blame for much of the increase.
MAPUTO, Sept. 19 (Xinhua) -- Training of polling station staff for this year's Mozambican general elections started on Friday, according to the National Elections Commission (CNE) on Friday.
The spokesperson for the State Administration Technical Secretariat (STAE) coach kristin leather tote , Lucas Jose, told Xinhua that the secretariat is to train a total of 130,000 polling station staff for the exercise.
Jose said that the first group, consisting of 60,000 will start training on Friday and will conclude on September 28.
According to him, the second group will be trained from September 30 until October 9.
Under the revised law, the three parties in the country's parliament coach legacy tote black , the Assembly of the Republic, can each name one member to each of the more than 17,000 polling stations nationwide.
Additional four members will be chosen by the normal public competition. STAE will send the polling station staff to remote areas by using helicopters, according to the spokesperson for the CNE, Paulo Cuinica.
There will be 17,199 polling stations in t.