1. Newsletter XVI 2024 - April 14th to 20th - News+ Poland: The Tusk government is also relying on nuclear energy

    End advertising for “climate-neutral” natural gas... April 15th Climate Protection Act | Speed ​​limit | Solar package reform of the climate protection law: watered down climate law is coming The leaders of the traffic light coalition agree on a controversial reform. The transport minister's threatened driving bans are now off the table. BERLIN taz | Less commitment to climate protection: The parliamentary groups...

  2. Newsletter XV 2024 - April 7th to 13th - News+ Shell pleads not guilty

    Reuters echoed the words of an economist from the Peterson Institute. * Traffic light | Trust | Bertelsmann New Survey Traffic Light Loses Particularly Among People with Lower Incomes The parties in the traffic light coalition are struggling with a massive loss of trust. According to a survey, this applies particularly to lower middle class and lower class milieus. In return, the Union hardly benefits. There are...

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    law, but to be enshrined in the Basic Law. This could prevent judges from being removed from office relatively easily after a change of government. [...] There is great agreement about this within the traffic light coalition, but the Union recently rejected the plans... News+ Background knowledge Top of page News+ Nuclear lobby and IAEA want climate money for MiK's nuclear plans...

  4. Newsletter VIII 2024 - February 18th to 24th - News+ On the death of the Russian opposition activist Alexei Navalny

    when it came to better protection for the Federal Constitutional Court. Unfortunately, the Union is proving through its actions that it is not living up to this responsibility. As a reminder: The traffic light coalition announced at the end of January that it wanted to better protect the Federal Constitutional Court from future authoritarian attempts to disempower it by changing the basic structure of the Karlsruhe court...

  5. Newsletter V 2024 - January 28th to February 3rd - Current news + US foreign policy: Profit over peace?

    Protection from extreme parties The Union also wants to protect the Constitutional Court. Extreme parties and enemies of democracy could relatively easily eliminate the highest German court. The traffic light coalition is therefore considering better protecting the monitoring body. The Union signaled support. The Federal Constitutional Court is the highest judicial authority for control and one of the...

  6. Newsletter IV 2024 - January 21st to 27th - Current news + AfD ban: Off to Karlsruhe?

    Strawberries are used on huge areas of irrigation systems, which make agriculture and horticulture possible there on a larger scale... * Disinformation and fakes against the traffic light coalition Platform conversion makes it possible Russian anti-traffic light campaign on Elon Musk's X revealed A huge network of Fake accounts are trying to spread dissatisfaction with the German...

  7. Newsletter LII 2023 - December 24th to 31st - News+ Nuclear power fantasy fails due to desolate industry

    Greece, which also did not last. "If you don't want that, you should get involved in our democracy."... * Climate policy | traffic light | CO2 emissions Climate policy of the traffic light coalition: At random Political lead casting: How the traffic light plunged climate policy into chaos and lost people's trust. The tractors, they scare the traffic lights. Ever since farmers started their huge...

  8. Newsletter LI 2023 - December 17th to 23rd - Current news + steps towards climate change, unsettled OPEC and loving politics

    Board member of GLS Bank and member of the editorial board of Klimareporter°. But she misses the social security provided by the promised climate money. Climate Reporter°: Ms. Osmanoglu, the traffic light coalition has reached an agreement in the budget dispute. Savings should be made in some corners, for example the subsidy for network fees should be eliminated and climate-damaging subsidies will also be reduced. On the...

  9. Newsletter L 2023 - December 10th to 16th - News+ The tail wags the dog and those on the right lead us by the nose ring “Back to the Future”

    | Farmers' Association The abolition of subsidies for fossil agricultural diesel is long overdue. Alternative fuels and drives have long been ready for use in agriculture. The traffic light coalition has decided to abolish the agricultural diesel subsidy, which would reduce the burden on the federal budget by around 900 million euros. This step seems logical given the...

  10. Newsletter XLIX 2023 - December 3rd to 9th - News+ The language of autocracy

    Separated uranium and plutonium can then be used again. That's the theory... December 7th Climate-damaging subsidies in the transport sector The money is on the street The traffic light coalition actually wanted to reduce climate-damaging subsidies. There is a lot of potential, particularly in the transport sector. But the FDP is slowing down. [...] What the Greens wanted to sell as a success in the spring...

  11. Newsletter XLVIII 2023 - November 26th to December 2nd - Current News+ Greenwashing at COP28: How corporations lobby against climate goals

    In the medium term, there is no need to make any compromises in social terms or in the expansion of infrastructure. Since the German Federal Court of Justice put an end to the government's debt cheating, the traffic light coalition has been trying to figure out how to plug the $60 billion hole. It doesn't have to come at the expense of restructuring Deutsche Bahn or digitalization or social benefits. It would...

  12. Newsletter XLVII 2023 - November 19th to 25th - News+ Spectacular setback for the development of small nuclear reactors in the USA - The dead horse

    the air above the seas. Temperatures on land are about twice as high. That's why it's already over two degrees warmer in Germany than it was 150 years ago... * Green party conference | Traffic Light Coalition | Neoliberalism The Green Party: Two Years of Hypocrisy in Government Across Europe, Green government parties are becoming supporters of authoritarian liberalism. In Germany on...

  13. Newsletter XLI 2023 - October 8th to 14th - News+ India - Flood and destruction - the last generation is right

    Climate protection according to the Basic Law Not constitutional is the verdict of 60 lawyers on the traffic light course. But climate protection continues to be attacked by politicians and the media. What's going on there? The traffic light coalition plans to weaken the climate protection law, which dates back to the time of the Merkel government. The existing climate protection law is already far too weak to ensure effective climate protection...

  14. Newsletter XL 2023 - October 1st to 7th - Current news + FDP proposal for industrial electricity price relief is spot on

    benefit, which would greatly increase acceptance. The traffic light coalition should introduce the complete abolition of all duties and taxes on green electricity for companies and residents of green electricity systems in the Bundestag consultations on the solar package that will soon begin and decide accordingly at the end of the year. Then 2024 could be the big year for the expansion of green electricity in Germany...

  15. Newsletter XXXIX 2023 - September 24th to 30th - News+ “Populist, verbally radical, ethnic” – and no end in sight

    said the head of the Federation of German Industries (BDI), Siegfried Russwurm, on ARD. "This works for everyone - for every company, but also for private consumers."... * Traffic Light Coalition | Arithmetic artist Lindner | Money laundering Fight against money laundering Million-dollar projects to combat money laundering stopped The new Federal Financial Criminal Police Office should be a "milestone" in the fight against...

  16. Newsletter XXIX 2023 - July 16 to 22 - News+ I don't want to be my grandson

    from three to four degrees. If this continues, I don't want to be my grandson who has to live in an inhumane greenhouse earth. How do you assess German climate protection policy? The traffic light coalition must finally act instead of just arguing. The FDP in particular is a blockade party. In surveys, 80 percent of Germans are in favor of climate protection. But woe betide it in the short term...

  17. Newsletter XXVI 2023 - June 25 to July 1 - News+ Two tips on how we can further strengthen the far-right AfD

    has settled the months-long dispute over the heating law. According to SPIEGEL information, the first details are available: What funding should be available now - and what schedule applies to whom. The traffic light coalition has finally agreed on the amendment to the Building Energy Act. The core of the regulations is the principle of installing heating systems that are 1 percent renewable from January 2024, 65...

  18. Newsletter XXII 2023 - May 28th to June 3rd - News+ Political style in Germany Please, strengthen the AfD

    come back to it later. If you compare the official final result of the federal election with the most recent survey by the Elections Research Group, you can see a pretty clear result. Within the traffic light coalition, only one party gained slightly: the Greens were at 16 percent in the survey and 14,8 percent in the election. The SPD, on the other hand, has lost almost six percentage points, from...

  19. Newsletter XIII 2023 - March 26 to April 1 - News+ What uranium ammunition would do to Ukraine

    In Ukraine, the operator of the power plant, the parastatal energy company ČEZ, decided to replace the supplier for security reasons... * FDP | Climate policy | Traffic light coalition Climate policy in the style of the FDP: The traffic light coalition fails as the last generation After a marathon meeting, the traffic light coalition largely steers towards the FDP's course in climate policy....

  20. Newsletter XII 2023 - March 19th to 25th - News+ The poison of doubt is the sugar for the bastard

    Gas crisis we've ever had" How should Germany become more climate-friendly? This question is currently causing discord in the federal government. Sharp criticism comes from expert Claudia Kemfert. The traffic light coalition is arguing about its climate policy: the plans to ban new gas and oil heating systems are being abandoned Homeowners fear high costs and calls for an expansion of state subsidies...

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