Election campaign in Berlin: Giffey criticizes Merz’s appearance
Rewrite this content There are many protests against the election campaign date of CDU federal leader Merz in Neukölln. The Governing Mayor also finds clear words. Apparently more than one sheet fits between them: Franziska Giffey before CDU candidate Wegner Photo: dpa BERLIN taz | Has anything like this ever happened? The SPD head of […]
Naturalization in Germany: A fact check in figures and graphics – Politics
In their coalition agreement, the parties in the traffic light government have agreed to reform the naturalization law. The goal is to “take social reality into account,” it says on page 6. Interior Minister Nancy Faeser has now presented a draft that contains the cornerstones of a new law. The most important planned innovations: Unlike […]
Merz sees little room for compromises
Dhe chairman of the Union faction in the Bundestag Friedrich Merz (CDU) sees little room for negotiations in the dispute over the new citizens’ income. “With this law, the federal government is carrying out a complete system change in labor market policy. Compromises are difficult,” Merz told the “Welt am Sonntag”. He rejects the “paradigm […]
Lured by benefits?: Palmer sees problems with Ukrainian refugees
Lured by achievements? Palmer sees problems with Ukrainian refugees 09/30/2022, 08:09 am CDU leader Merz has just caused outrage when he speaks of “social tourism” by Ukrainian refugees. Now he gets support from the mayor of Tübingen, Palmer. It cannot be that people come to Germany just because of “increased performance incentives”. After CDU leader […]
Ukraine war in Newsblog | Report: Russia plans to conscript 1.2 million people
In fact, however, it is not possible to enforce decision-making processes in the most powerful UN body against the will of a veto power like Russia. “The use of the veto should be the exception, but it is becoming the rule. Reform is urgently needed,” said Michel. The UN future summit planned for 2024 is […]
Robert Habeck: Bailout announced for companies
Economics Minister Robert Habeck “Until we get the prices down, we’ll give the companies whatever help we can.” (Foto: IMAGO/Political-Moments) Berlin Federal Minister of Economics Robert Habeck (Greens) has promised German companies comprehensive help in the energy crisis. “We will put up a broad rescue package,” he said on Thursday in the Bundestag. In concrete terms, […]
Maybrit Illner in the TV review: create peace with weapons
DThe arguments have been exchanged to some extent, but the talk shows have to go on. That’s why the same staff sits in there every week, sometimes on several evenings. On Thursday, Norbert Röttgen was still right with Maybrit Illner that Friedrich Merz traveled to Ukraine. Marina Weisband also believed that one should not give […]
Conflicts – War against Ukraine: That’s the situation – Politics
Washington/Kyiv/Moscow (AP) – US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has reaffirmed Washington’s continued “robust support” for Ukraine in the face of Russian aggression. In a conversation with his Ukrainian colleague Dmytro Kuleba, according to a statement from the State Department, Blinken informed about the forthcoming return of US diplomats, initially to Lviv in the coming […]
TV criticism of Maybrit Illner: arms delivery to Ukraine
BDon’t anyone claim that everything has already been said about this war, at least as far as it can be surveyed up to now. We learn something new every day. In the morning, for example, the FDP politician Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann said in the Bundestag debate that Germany had watched “naively, ignorantly, with German calm” as […]
Amendment of the Basic Law for 100 billion special debts: Traffic light needs Union votes
The federal government wants to take on 100 billion euros in special debt for more Bundeswehr equipment and other security tasks. But the Union, whose votes the traffic light needs, opposes the first reading in the Bundestag – and insists on having a say. The fact that this matter is important to the Federal Government […]