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

    Tausende Menschen vor Gerichte, um zu klären, wer welche Verantwortung trägt und wer geschützt werden muss. National war das schon erfolgreich, etwa in Deutschland mit dem Urteil des Bundesverfassungsgerichts für strengere Klimaziele 2021. Schweizer Klimaschützer hatten nun am Dienstag mit einer ersten Klage für schärfere Maßnahmen gegen den Klimawandel vor dem Europäischen Gerichtshof für...

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    spread, but also served to provide "covert financial support to selected people among the candidates for the European Parliament elections"... * Federal Constitutional Court | Basic Law Amendment to the Basic Law This is how traffic lights and the Union want to protect the Constitutional Court Exclusive | Berlin · So now: To protect the Constitutional Court, central...

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

    täglichen Realität geworden. Die Situation verbessert sich nicht, und solange dieser tragische Krieg andauert, bleibt das Kraftwerk in Gefahr.“ * Flut von Klagen behindert die Arbeit des Bundesverfassungsgerichts "Masse statt Klasse" AfD flutet Gerichte und Ministerien mit Klagen und Anfragen Eine wahre Flut von Klagen und Anfragen durch die AfD belastet das Bundesverfassungsgericht und die...

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

    bekenne sich "vorbehaltslos zum deutschen Staatsvolk als der Summe aller Personen, die die deutsche Staatsangehörigkeit besitzen". Wenn es zu einem Verbotsverfahren käme, müsste das Bundesverfassungsgericht das als entlastend werten? Nein. AfD-Funktionäre behaupten immer wieder, dass sie auf dem Boden des Grundgesetzes stünden. Aber das sind rein taktische Manöver. Solche Erklärungen haben kein...

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

    gegen die Grünen, sondern ­gegen die Demokratie. Um damit auch gegen sie. Nur mit dieser Kurzsichtigkeit ist auch zu erklären, dass Merz die Gespräche mit der Ampel darüber, wie man das Bundesverfassungsgericht demokratisch absichern kann, plötzlich auf Eis gelegt hat... * Russland | Rüstung | Rheinmetall Rheinmetall und Russland Geplatzte Milliardenträume Vor zehn Jahren stoppte die...

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

    * Juristen | Grundgesetz | Verfassungsgericht Gemeinsamer Aufruf Juristenverbände für Stärkung des Verfassungsgerichts Die Unionsfraktion hatte zuletzt mitgeteilt, sie sehe das Bundesverfassungsgericht genug vor Extremisten geschützt. Nun sprechen sich vier Berufsverbände von Juristinnen und Juristen für neue Regeln im Grundgesetz aus. Die Juristinnen und Juristen sind nicht erfreut. Gleich vier...

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

    Discontinued in March. This is expected to result in significant cost savings from April. The closure should then come into force at the end of April... * Constitutional Court | Merzthutjanix Federal Constitutional Court: The protection of democracy does not tolerate games. The Union is withdrawing from the talks about securing the Constitutional Court, although its ministers and experts are in favor of it. The...

  8. Newsletter VI 2024 - February 4th to 10th - News+ Nuclear power is a dead horse - why isn't Merz getting down?

    all AfD members are assumed (ref.: VG 1 L 340/23). [...] What do the latest decisions mean for a possible ban procedure? Nothing serious can be derived from this. In the event of such proceedings, the Federal Constitutional Court decides itself how it investigates, examines materials and what legal consequences it ultimately draws from it. * Pakistan | Corruption...

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

    want to protect together The government parties SPD, Greens and FDP agree: They want to prevent the AfD from influencing the functioning of the Federal Constitutional Court in the event of an emergency - and are therefore aiming for a change to the Basic Law. The CDU and CSU are ready to take part, at least in principle. [...] In fact, the Editorial Network Germany (RND) already found out on...

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

    of the right-wing extremist AfD, the Volksverpetzer petition on the Innn.it platform, which has reached over 720.000 signatures, is accepted by the Federal Council. The current ruling by the Federal Constitutional Court against the NPD (which has renamed itself “Die Heimat”), which withdraws party funding, also shows what is necessary to ban a party. A report from the Institute for...

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

    turn back! We can now educate people and democratically save ourselves from this party! Before it is too late! The momentum is there. We are seriously debating whether the Federal Constitutional Court should decide to ban the AfD. Our petition has almost 700.000 signatures. * Mobile phones | SAR value Cell phones radiated far too much radiation for decades - until today? The...

  12. 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

    Bundestag and Bundesrat - failed badly against the NPD because the party was riddled with too many informants. A second application for a ban against the NPD was also rejected by the Federal Constitutional Court in 2017... * Japan | Earthquake | Shika Nuclear Power Plant After a strong earthquake in Japan: An echo of Fukushima Another earthquake and a tsunami hit a Japanese nuclear power plant hard. The...

  13. Newsletter I 2024 - January 1st to 6th - News+ - The necessary change needs more support

    and the Greens, on the other hand, would implode with a ban in the current mood - corresponding suggestions are therefore just thought experiments, gestural anti-fascism... * Federal Constitutional Court | Basic Law | Rule of law The sharpest sword of the rule of law Some politicians are debating a proposal to ban the AfD. The requirements for a party ban...

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

    Air... * Democracy | AfD | Anti-Semitism Former Constitutional Judge Voßkuhle "It may be that our democracy turns out to be just a phase in history" The former President of the Federal Constitutional Court, Andreas Voßkuhle, is concerned about growing anti-Semitism and the strengthening of the AfD. The party is striving for a “fundamental change in the system”. [...] Voßkuhle warned...

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

    ensure that the climate money comes during this legislative period. The traffic light leaders only recently found a solution to the budget crisis that was triggered by the Federal Constitutional Court's budget ruling more than a month ago. Climate money is intended to distribute the costs of the ecological restructuring of the economy and society in a more socially equitable manner. The demand for...

  16. 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”

    exposed. At just under 2 million, the concentrations even exceed 300, and in some cases even over 1.000 becquerels per cubic meter... * Traffic Light Coalition | Federal budget | Federal Constitutional Court budget for 2024 Traffic light leaders resolve their budget dispute The leaders of the traffic light coalition have reached an agreement in their talks on the federal budget for 2024. What solution do you...

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

    On Friday the FDP initiative to change the Forest Act was on the agenda. Essentially it's about wind turbines in forest areas. They had already been banned in Thuringia. But the Federal Constitutional Court overturned the regulation in November 2022... * Climate protection | European Parliament | Building renovation Building directive on climate protection EU waives renovation obligation »Grandma's little house is...

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

    bring... * Emissions trading | CO2 price | Climate and transformation fund "The sensible way" Climate economist calls for higher CO2 prices instead of taking on debt. Since the Federal Constitutional Court's budget ruling, the climate and transformation fund is missing 60 billion euros. To compensate for this, climate researcher Ottmar Edenhofer relies on national emissions trading. It offers more advantages than...

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

    Constitutional complaint against the federal government Environmental Aid is going to the Constitutional Court: “Many politicians have long since stopped caring about climate protection” German Environmental Aid is going to the Federal Constitutional Court because it accuses the Federal Government of refusing climate protection. In the RND interview, managing director Jürgen Resch says that the government is not only violating the current law, but also...

  20. Newsletter XLV 2023 - November 5th to 11th - News+ Are Habeck, Pistorius, Baerbock an infernal trio?

    but also about successes in environmental protection. The book begins with hopeful “words in advance”: with the story of an eleven-year-old student Marlene, who obliged the federal government through the Federal Constitutional Court to do more climate protection, with the young community service worker who discovered a bird die-off and who enforced the ban on a toxic pesticide, and with one first...

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