1. Newsletter XVII 2024 - April 21st to 27th - News+ Reform of the Climate Protection Act: One step forward, two steps back

    (BFS) Nuclear accidents: Chernobyl The Chernobyl accident led in many countries to revise programs to protect the population from radioactive radiation... April 25th MPs | Corruption | bribery | Provision Addition to the Criminal Code Bribery MPs face harsher penalties After allegations in the course of so-called mask deals, members of the Bundestag...

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

    to become. Lobby deals Germany 2020. Lowest Corona time. While the basic rights of the population and then also those of the Bundestag were restricted, countless transactions are being carried out between members of parliament and some companies. The most well-known are probably the mask deals. MPs collected millions in commissions for arranging orders. In other words, they are in office...

  3. Newsletter XIV 2024 - March 31st to April 6th - News+ - It's not just Germany that is getting out

    | Killing Israel-Gaza War Nancy Pelosi calls for a stop to US arms deliveries to Israel She is one of the most influential US Democrats: Nancy Pelosi, along with dozens of other MPs, appeals to the US government to stop sending weapons to Israel - and the death of the international ones to examine helpers. U.S. Rep. Nancy Pelosi, former Speaker of the House of Representatives and...

  4. Newsletter XII 2024 - March 17th to 23rd - News+ Industry should stop whining about Germany

    have suffered. Amsterdam lawyer Bénédicte Ficq is also working on a criminal class action lawsuit by local residents. [...] Meanwhile, the “Health First” initiative has contacted members of the EU Parliament. During a visit to Brussels, activists presented demands for a quick ban on PFAS. Exceptions should only be made for important medical...

  5. Newsletter XI 2024 - March 10th to 16th - News+ There is every reason to be afraid of the AfD

    against a corresponding request from the Union. With 687 votes cast, according to the final count, 188 parliamentarians supported the motion, 494 voted against and 5 abstained. 48 MPs stayed away from the vote. There are 197 members of the Union parliamentary group. Although there are also supporters of a Taurus delivery in the traffic light parties, the coalition stood behind...

  6. Newsletter X 2024 - March 3rd to 9th - News+ More courage would be good

    suffered long enough from the constant tremors that accompanied mining. The Dutch parliament is now fully committed to nuclear energy. On Tuesday, a majority of MPs decided to build four new reactors - twice as many as the government wanted. The Greens, Social Democrats, the socialist SP and the Animal Welfare Party voted against it. Two of the...

  7. Newsletter IX 2024 - February 25th to March 2nd - News+ Deceptively real AI videos: What if we can no longer believe anything?

    legally non-binding resolution was adopted on Thursday with 451 votes in favour, 46 against and 49 abstentions. [...] EU calls for more equal aid among member states The MPs emphasized that there are enormous differences in how much military aid individual EU states provide to Ukraine. More money needs to be invested in European arms production...

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

    who is welcome and who is not. For example, an organizer of the Munich demo declared that the CSU was undesirable, but Bavaria's anti-Semitism commissioner, a CSU MP, canceled his participation. This is hardly surprising in a society that is losing the spaces in which people with different views meet. In sports clubs and...

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

    You can win elections against an unpopular government, as Milei demonstrated impressively. But winning majorities in Congress like this would be very difficult. And with only 38 MPs for his Libertad Avanza (Freedom Advances) in a 257-seat Chamber of Deputies and seven seats in a 72-seat Senate, Milei is in desperate need of support....

  10. Newsletter III 2024 - January 14th to 20th - Current news + Psychological explanations for doing nothing

    On December 1, 2023, she accused the traffic light coalition in the Bundestag of setting the wrong priorities in their budget. Cotar was formerly a member of the AfD parliamentary group, but now sits in parliament as a non-attached member. [...] CSU General Secretary Martin Huber also takes it up. On January 16th he wrote on X: "The traffic light distributes money all over the world, but for our hard-working farmers...

  11. Newsletter II 2024 - January 7th to 13th - News+ SMR: US developers of mini-nuclear power plants under pressure - class action lawsuit by shareholders against NuScale Power

    Martin Sellner presented such a “secret plan” under the euphemism of “remigration”. AfD politicians are also said to have been there: a state parliamentary group leader, a member of the Bundestag and a personal advisor to Alice Weidel. The research fuels the discussion about a possible AfD party ban, which has been going on for weeks anyway. So far, one thing has received less attention...

  12. 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”

    to be reinstated. In October, Lula da Silva vetoed key passages of the law passed by Congress that threatened indigenous people's land rights. Representatives and senators voted again for the law with a clear majority. In doing so, supporters of former President Jair Bolsonaro and his allies in the powerful agricultural industry...

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

    collapse.” * EU Parliament | Qatargate | Corruption “What the hell is happening here?” The “Katargate” scandal broke out a year ago – now new details are coming to light. The Green MEP Hannah Neumann talks about the ego trips of the accused Eva Kaili, glamorous trips and ineffective rules of conduct. SPIEGEL: The “Qatargate” corruption scandal broke out a year ago...

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

    that are too important to the green environment." The first half is already unintentionally strange in that there are more MPs with a university degree (and also a higher proportion of doctorates) in the Green parliamentary group, with a total of 92,4 percent, than in the Union parliamentary group (90,4 percent). However, the second part of the tirade, which deals with...

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

    on the reduction of chemical pesticides in Europe on Wednesday (November 22nd). It was a narrow majority that voted against it - 299 voted against, 207 for, and 121 members abstained. But this means that the EU's plans to reduce the use of pesticides by half by 2030 have failed. Parliament also rejected further negotiations...

  16. Newsletter XLVI 2023 - November 12th to 18th - News+ Violence as a consequence of climate change: No cool heads

    To end Assange. An open letter is circulating among parliamentarians calling on President Joe Biden to end the Australian's detention. It was written by Democratic Representative Jim McGovern and Republican Thomas Massie. The Wikileaks founder is accused of several crimes, the punishment of which amounts to more than 170 years in prison. The 52-year-old has been sitting since April...

  17. Newsletter XXXVIII 2023 - September 17th to 23rd - News+ A future that I dread

    of nuclear weapons and to encourage political decision-makers to actively support Germany's accession to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. More than 650 German representatives in the European Parliament, the Bundestag and the state parliaments have already signed the ICAN parliamentary declaration for the ban on nuclear weapons... * Transport | Wissing | Mobility Wissing must...

  18. Newsletter XXXVI 2023 - September 3rd to 9th - News+ Scientist predicts brutal “population correction” later this century

    guaranteed. What's wrong, among other things. After further wars of words in the Bundestag, the much-discussed heating law was passed in the Bundestag this Friday afternoon. 399 MPs voted in a roll-call vote for the draft law to amend the Building Energy Act (GEG), the Heating Cost Ordinance and the Sweeping and Inspection Ordinance in a...

  19. Newsletter XXXV 2023 - August 27 to September 2 - News+ Historic victory: Ecuador becomes the first country to say no to oil

    He had already been familiar with him for 27 years when he was appointed head of the Resin investigation group at the State Security Service in 2017, the official said. The investigative committee in the House of Representatives is looking into a possible failure of the authorities to investigate the right-wing extremist series of attacks in Neukölln, which dates back to 2009. Although countless investigators are involved in the attacks...

  20. Newsletter XXXIV 2023 - August 20th to 26th - News+ The sun will shine for another 4,5 billion years

    attacked in Rhineland-Palatinate – apparently with feces. According to police, he had previously pretended to want to take a photo with her. Before an appearance in Daun in the Eifel, AfD member of the Bundestag Beatrix von Storch was smeared with feces on Friday. As the police in Daun confirmed, a man pretended to want to take a photo with the politician. He stepped closer to her and...

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