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Here’s your quick update on what’s happening around the city on Friday, October 31 - from urgent alerts to stories in the subreddit. Today we went through 155 sources so you don't have to.

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🇩🇪 Degree without a connection: Career starters with a degree have a hard time

Many German graduates are finding first jobs harder to land than vocational peers, rbb24 reports. Alisa Sogijaine sent 40–50 applications before securing a trainee role at energy provider Edis, where applications per opening have doubled. Entry-level postings for academics fell 43.9% in Berlin and 54.7% in Brandenburg; young graduate unemployment also rose. (rbb24)

National demand helps explain the squeeze. In September 2025, employers reported 630,000 vacancies to the Federal Employment Agency, down 66,000 year on year. The agency’s job index stood at 98, unchanged from August and signaling subdued hiring appetite compared with stronger years, which limits direct-entry opportunities for new graduates. (Bundesagentur für Arbeit)

Supply of graduates is also rising. Germany awarded about 511,600 higher-education degrees in the 2024 exam year, 1.9% more than in 2023. Fields with the most graduates were law, economics, and social sciences at 41%, followed by engineering at 25%. More graduates in these tracks intensify competition for junior roles and traineeships. (Statistisches Bundesamt)

🇬🇧 German dentists hold memorial recognising sadistic practices of profession under Nazis

Germany’s main dental society held its first memorial on Wednesday, acknowledging “systemic” involvement of dentists in Nazi crimes. At Humboldt University, speakers detailed sadistic extractions, experiments, forced sterilizations and murders. Research cited 55% of dentists and over 60% of dental academics joining the party, with some aiding camp “selections” (The Guardian)

Historians long ago documented broad medical complicity. Roughly half of all German physicians joined Nazi Party organizations between 1933 and 1945, far above typical professions. Many embraced eugenics and directly supported persecution, benefiting from the dismissal of Jewish colleagues and the “Aryanization” of medicine. They influenced policy and practice (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum)

The dental society’s reckoning signals how professional gatekeepers can fortify ethical norms and resist resurgent hatred. Such public accountability matters amid today’s tensions. A national watchdog counted 8,627 antisemitic incidents in Germany in 2024, nearly double the prior year, underscoring the urgency of credible, proactive institutional responses (Reuters)

Germany leads the European Union in solar expansion, including private rooftops, but surplus power often goes unused. A government bill would let producers share electricity with neighbors through local “energy communities” from 2026. A Bakum pilot suggested local needs could be fully covered; however, critics warn the draft lacks subsidies and clarity. (tagesschau.de)

Under European Union law, “energy sharing” means active customers self‑consume renewable electricity generated or stored off‑site or transferred by another customer. Member states must let shared output be netted against metered use and exempt small households from supplier duties, with thresholds of up to 10.8 kilowatts for single homes. (EUR‑Lex)

If Germany pairs clear rules with simple digital billing, neighborhood sharing could turn rooftop surpluses into cheaper, more resilient local power and support the grid. Evidence indicates real savings are possible: a Deutsche Energie-Agentur simulation found peer‑to‑peer electricity markets can cut household bills by about 4 percent locally and up to 20 percent nationally. (Deutsche Energie‑Agentur)

⚡ Quick Hits

🇬🇧 JPMorgan Chase to enter German retail banking market in 2026 – report | JPMorgan will launch Chase—its digital banking brand—in Germany in Q2 2026, starting with savings accounts; it aims for a top-five position after UK success with 2 million customers.

🇩🇪 "It is still very shocking" | Berlin's Schwuz, the country's oldest and largest queer club, is closing after 48 years following insolvency, 30+ layoffs and a September deficit near €70,000, staff say.

🇩🇪 Municipal heating planning: How Berlin should heat in future | Berlin aims for climate-neutral heating by 2045; buildings cause ~40% of its CO2. The plan maps zones and calls for over €6 billion investment in five years.

🇩🇪 From Wedding to the main station: S-Bahn line S15 to run from March 28, 2026 | Work is 98% complete but years overdue (originally due 2017); remaining safety approvals and emergency-power and smoke-extraction retrofits could still delay S21, the planned north–south S-Bahn link.

🇩🇪 Car, train, Germany ticket - these are the decisions of the transport ministers | The nationwide Deutschlandticket (public transport pass) will rise to €63 in 2026 and be index-linked from 2027, securing funding to 2030 amid calls for higher rail subsidies.

🇩🇪 During the night: shots fired in Kreuzberg - man injured | A 37-year-old was shot on Dudenstraße at 3:30am; shooter fled, victim stable. Berlin's LKA (state criminal police) probes amid several recent car-linked shootings.

🇬🇧 Germany launches €18 billion High-Tech Agenda | Targets six fields — AI, quantum, microelectronics, biotech, fusion, green transport — ties roadmaps to milestone funding, and boosts startups with additional state-backed funding.

📅 Events Today

🎟️ Día de los Muertos at Holzmarkt | October 31 to November 02, 2025 | Friday and Sunday €3, Saturday €5 | Bright altars, live music, poetry, face painting, sugar‑skull workshops and Mexican treats turn remembrance into a joyful, neon‑coloured fiesta — celebrate life with rhythm, flavour and a mischievous grin.

🎟️ Theater der Dinge | October 31 - November 5, 2025 | Different fees depending on the production | Contemporary puppet and object theater stages playful, provocative pieces where puppets, installations and machines debate autonomy—blurring art, tech and performance into anarchic shows, poetic experiments and live audio dramas that challenge who’s in control.

🎟️ Jazzfest Berlin | October 30 - November 02, 2025 | Different fees depending on the concert | Four days of boundary‑pushing jazz: 120+ international artists fuse post‑bop, free and experimental sounds, premieres, lifetime awards, midnight sets and sweaty after‑parties—essential for curious ears.

💬 What Berliners Are Talking About

🗣️ Menschen, die Taschentücher in der S- Bahn verteilen? | Commuters warn that free tissue packs in trains are often coordinated begging scams.

🗣️ Vets in Kreuzberg | Local asks for affordable Kreuzberg vets, commenters suggest one on Großbeerenstraße.

🗣️ Aufdringliche Spendensammler von Greenpeace am Ostkreuz | Commuters report aggressive Greenpeace fundraisers causing unsafe, annoying confrontations at Ostkreuz station.

🦒 Fun Fact: Berlin’s Tierpark (in Friedrichsfelde) is Europe’s largest zoo by area – a sprawling 160 hectares (400 acres) of parkland for its animals, including a historic palace on the grounds.

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