Formally, the increase in the radio license fee on January 1st fails due to a canceled vote in the state parliament of Saxony-Anhalt.
As controversial as the state CDU's approach may be, it was foreseeable that sooner or later a state would no longer be willing to bear the rising costs of ARD, ZDF and Deutschlandradio and to represent them to its voters.
There are good reasons for it.
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The scandal institute
A respected research institute that, for example, helped to develop MPEG audio technology, but that generated revenues from patent rights in the three-digit million range because it entrusted the processing of payments to a lawyer? Sounds made up, but it is a case from the public service world.