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

    public space and its rules of use. StVG and StVO are therefore seen as the key to the transport transition. Although the amendment was agreed upon between the parties in the federal government and passed by the Bundestag, the reform effort has now failed in the Bundesrat. It appears this was no coincidence. At the same time, the SPD canceled its coalition with the Greens in the city of Hanover...

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

    ... * Household | Lobbying | Debt brake Money, influence, and lobbying: Hardly anyone talks about the cause of the budget crisis. The investment backlog is getting bigger, the budget is getting smaller. And the Bundestag approves the government's wrong move. Who benefits from this system error? A guest comment. People don't talk about money. However, that is exactly what should be done with regard to the federal budget. Now lets...

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

    Alliance green politics and grassroots democracy in action. The title of the letter: “Back to the Greens”. More than 400 members nationwide signed within two days. After the federal election, they hoped that the Greens' participation would really make a difference, the letter says. “Then the decision came to Lützerath, came the 100 billion for the...

  4. Newsletter XLIII 2023 - October 22nd to 28th - News+ Municipal utilities are leaving the Future Gas lobby association

    Education is a threat to democracy or pluralistic dynamics? The opposite poles of the assessment and conclusion on the subject of lobbying A hotel entrepreneur donates millions to two parties in the state and federal election campaigns, which soon form a coalition at the federal level. Shortly after the federal election, the new government decided to reduce the VAT rate for...

  5. Newsletter XLII 2023 - October 15th to 21st - News+ For a new concept of fascism

    in the West Bank. Israel is carrying out the plan, the political plan, of these extreme fascist settlers, the colonizing right wing... * Transparency | Lobby register More transparency: Bundestag is tightening up the lobby register. In the future, interest representatives will have to provide more information about their financing, possible backers and their goals. A “legislative footprint” is still missing. With...

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

    Waste... September 28 Campaign for Nuclear Fusion. Energy generation from fusion will take 20 years at the earliest. Energy generation of the future: Dreaming of nuclear fusion Experts in the Bundestag's research committee are positive about nuclear fusion. But the problems are numerous. BERLIN taz | Germany has good cards in the race for nuclear fusion as the energy source of the future, but it is...

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

    It was decided under pressure from the Fridays for Future movement and is also considered exemplary. The fact that the traffic light introduced the amendment to the law in the Bundestag in the week of the "Ambitions Summit" can only be described as cynical... * Protected areas in the deep sea | Raw materials It's all about practice In New York, Germany signed a historic high seas agreement....

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

    Months. The global community has not delivered - and must now urgently consider how to respond... * Heating Act | Heat transition | Climate protection Difficult birth: Heating law passed in the Bundestag SPD and Greens are satisfied. CDU politician speaks of “insanity”. The left does not see tenant protection guaranteed. What's wrong, among other things. After further verbal battles in...

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

    says the co-inventor of the Renewable Energy Act, Hans-Josef Fell. He calls for a fixed feed-in tariff for solar power from fields and the abolition of the expansion cap. [...] With this solar package, the Bundestag has another Herculean task ahead of it in the fall. In order to accelerate solar expansion as much as climate protection requires, it should follow the following guidelines...

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

    Kleinstadt in Rheinland-Pfalz angegriffen – offenbar mit Kot. Zuvor hatte er laut Polizei vorgetäuscht, ein Foto mit ihr machen zu wollen. Vor einem Auftritt in Daun in der Eifel ist die AfD-Bundestagsabgeordnete Beatrix von Storch am Freitag mit Fäkalien beschmiert worden. Wie die Polizei in Daun bestätigte, gab ein Mann vor, ein Foto mit der Politikerin machen zu wollen. Er trat näher an sie...

  11. Newsletter XXXII 2023 - August 6th to 12th - News+ Hiroshima - The asphalt will burn. Chaos will reign

    advocated a reform of electricity prices with lower fees for regions with a lot of wind power. The authority's president, Klaus Müller, told the "Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung" that there was a bill in the Bundestag that would authorize the network agency to introduce fair network fees. "As soon as the law is passed, we will make a proposal for the reform." So far...

  12. Newsletter XXX 2023 - July 23-29 - News+ Chomsky: What happens when orders from Washington are not followed?

    ihren Protestaktionen zu weit“ gehe... * Windräder | Abstandsregel | Repowering 15.000 Transportanträge für Windräder stapeln sich bei Autobahn GmbH Der wirtschaftspolitische Sprecher der FDP im Bundestag, Reinhard Houben, behauptet, der Windkraftausbau geschehe nicht schneller, "weil wir nicht genügend Genehmigungen für den Transport dieser entsprechenden Windkraftanlagen haben." Tatsächlich...

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

    Search for a final repository: scolding on the anniversary Opponents of nuclear power criticize bogus participation and unscientific nature Ten years after the Bundestag passed the site selection law, opponents of nuclear power have sharply criticized the search for a final repository for highly radioactive nuclear waste. The search process will not meet the legal and self-imposed demands...

  14. Newsletter XXVIII 2023 - July 9-15 - News+ Bulgaria wants to sell Russian reactors to Ukraine

    | Damages Why ex-minister Scheuer will hardly pay for the toll damage Mayors and federal officials are personally liable if they act with gross negligence - the federal minister is not. The Bundestag could change that. There is great anger over the damage caused to taxpayers by the failed car toll. 243 million euros in damages for the toll consortium...

  15. Newsletter XXVII 2023 - July 2nd to 8th - News+ Is nuclear power experiencing a renaissance? There are also military interests behind it

    severe criticism against the state government and Prime Minister Markus Söder (CSU). "The state government kept the disaster secret, kept quiet and covered it up for a long time. Only after losing the federal election was it a good time for Söder to publish it," said Markus Büchler, parliamentary group spokesman for mobility on Friday in Munich. For years the state government...

  16. Newsletter XXV 2023 - June 18th to 24th - News+ US war machine: Many knew, only he disagreed

    Fridays for Future and its partners in Senegal reject the gas strategy. They advocate a complete switch to renewable energies. Lisa Badum, energy politician for the Greens in the Bundestag, said: “The success of JETP must not be diminished by a gas deal.” The Chancellor should “finally bury” the planned gas purchase in Senegal. The Ministry of Development in Berlin...

  17. Newsletter XXIV 2023 - June 11th to 17th - News+ How the West is losing the Global South

    reported on Wednesday afternoon, it has drawn up a draft bill that is now circulating in the other ministries before it is voted on in the cabinet and finally introduced into the Bundestag. We have repeatedly reported in the past that Federal Transport Minister Volker Wissing (FDP) is not taking sufficient measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from transport...

  18. Newsletter XXIII 2023 - June 4th to 10th - News+ Politics with poison, hate speech and propaganda

    Every front garden should hear the unmistakable sound of a heat pump. This is what the heating law wants, which the government representatives from the Greens and SPD want to introduce into the Bundestag before the summer break. The traffic light colleagues from the FDP justify their resistance to this, among other things, with unclear requirements. Some of their concerns are valid. [...] As expected, the...

  19. Newsletter XXI 2023 - 21 to 27 May - News+ World Biodiversity Day: Will the plan to restore Europe's biodiversity fail?

    die entsprechenden Gesetze verabschiedet. Nordrhein-Westfalen befindet sich noch in der Vorbereitung eines entsprechenden Gesetzes... * Fossil Lobby | FDP | Klimawandel Leugner Haben in der FDP-Bundestagsfraktion Klimawandelleugner die Macht übernommen? Dass es beim Gebäudeenergiegesetz unharmonisch werden könnte, war absehbar. Ein derartig wichtiges Gesetz mit weitreichenden Folgen für...

  20. Newsletter XX 2023 - May 14th to 20th - News+ Heat waves hit poor neighborhoods particularly hard

    did not increase after shutdown. Before we talk about France, a nuclear power country, first some good news for German consumers. The leader of the Green Party in the Bundestag, Katharina Dröge, sums it up sarcastically with a view to Bavaria: "I'm afraid Markus Söder has to be very strong now..." [...] The problems vary with the new EPR building in Flamanville . He should...

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