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

    Strafbarkeit auf Fälle ausgeweitet, die nichts mit der eigentlichen Arbeit im Parlament zu tun haben. SPD, Grüne und FDP reagierten mit ihrem Vorstoß auch auf die sogenannten Maskenaffären früherer CSU-Abgeordneter. Diese hatten in der Frühphase der Corona-Pandemie dem Staat Maskengeschäfte vermittelt und dafür Millionenprovisionen erhalten. Trotz späteren Ermittlungen wegen des Verdachts der...

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

    some countries are building new nuclear power plants. In many others, however, nuclear power is not an issue. GÖTTINGEN taz | With their ongoing criticism of Germany's nuclear phase-out, which was completed a year ago, the CDU and CSU, FDP and business associations are bringing out the heavy rhetorical artillery. The exit was “a dramatic mistake,” said FDP Vice President Wolfgang Kubicki. The CDU Economic Council saw this as a “great danger for...

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    because serious political opponents in the country. Azerbaijan received attention in the German media in 2017 when it became known that various financial payments from the petrostate had flowed to CDU and CSU politicians. The public prosecutor's office began investigations into bribery in several cases. March 26 Gaza | Catastrophe | Drinking water | Food Gaza: “The children...

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

    Reactor explosions on three different days met the criteria for classification as an INES 7 catastrophic accident. March 14th Bundestag rejects delivery of Taurus cruise missiles CDU and CSU fail again with their application for Taurus deliveries to Ukraine The Union wanted to know again in the dispute over Taurus cruise missiles for Ukraine. Parliament approved the request for...

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

    of the Karlsruhe court should be enshrined in the constitution. The Union was needed for this from the start, because a change to the Basic Law can only be made with a two-thirds majority. The CDU and CSU were initially open-minded. But now they don't want to anymore. Party leader Friedrich Merz already said during the general debate three weeks ago that he would approve...

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

    a threat from the right can be avoided again. People still knew about the close connection between capitalism and fascism. Accordingly, politicians well into the CDU/CSU were convinced that capitalism had to either be abolished or at least significantly curbed in order to give democracy a lasting basis. [...] Such talk comes to us today...

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

    Concentrations were discovered "that are so high that a health risk cannot be ruled out"... * Citizens' movement | Defensive democracy demonstrations against the right: Ehhh, CSU, argh, the Antifa! The protest for democracy can become a citizens' movement. If organizers don't exclude. And participants don't expect everyone to agree. One...

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

    she expresses empathy towards the relatives of the abductees and the prisoners. But you get the impression that she accepts that the kidnapped people will die... * Bavaria | CSU | Free voters | AfD Bavarian state parliament elects AfD candidates as constitutional judges Together with 13 other candidates, the state parliament has elected two AfD candidates as honorary judges at Bavaria's...

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

    “Anyone who believes in a free society, a free press and a fair judiciary must be convinced that Assange should have been free for a long time... * CSU and other pawns How it came to this the CSU forgot its cycle paths in Peru CSU General Secretary Huber accuses the government of distributing German money worldwide instead of helping local farmers...

  10. 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

    in 2027 the British electricity customer or taxpayer will pay. * Farmers | Fossils | Subsidies Farmer blockades and pawn catchers: How parties voted and how they are now expressing themselves The CSU and AfD are trying to use the farmers' protests for their own benefit. They also voted for an end to tax breaks. What else stands out? Police departments in several federal states warned...

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

    A few days ago, the CEO of the Eon Group, Birnbaum, declared that a revival of nuclear power in Germany was no longer technically possible. Among others, the CDU chairman Merz, CSU boss Söder and the FDP parliamentary group leader Dürr have repeatedly spoken out in favor of building new nuclear power plants. IMHO Ignorance can be the fault of the nuclear lobbyists Dürr, Merzthutjanix and...

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

    Minimum working conditions. Study Hard Work, Peco Institute Germany builds on the backs of those without a German passport... * Scheuer | Compensation | Car toll | Ministry of Transport CSU car toll: Scheuer gets away without a lawsuit The car toll collapsed spectacularly. The state was billed in the millions - the then CSU minister is not threatened with a lawsuit because of this. BERLIN dpa/taz | The...

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

    the FDP is already at the five percent hurdle against the thesis of the carefree rule of certain lobbies. At least with a certain time delay and for some of the actors - the CSU was also responsible for the tax relief for hoteliers, but, unlike the FDP, did not come into the limelight of public criticism - it can have too strong an influence on politics after...

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

    decided. The aim of the initiative is to increase transparency about stakeholders, as well as their funding, background and aspirations. The CDU/CSU and AfD factions voted against the plan, the Left abstained. The Conservatives particularly criticized the fact that the draft would lead to a “disproportionate amount of bureaucracy”. Since 2022...

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

    Only six (!) wind turbines went into operation in the first nine months of this year shows the Bavarian government's great ignorance when it comes to the climate crisis. CSU Prime Minister Markus Söder's constant reference to the fact that a lot of other renewable energy is produced in Bavaria does not hold water. There is no way around expanding wind power; it is a mainstay of...

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

    in many regions. They could defuse so-called citizen energy parks, from which communities and residents benefit more, for example through reduced electricity prices... * CDU | CSU | AfD Fire without a Wall: The wrong path of the Söder-Merz Union If one day the history of German conservatism is assessed, the fall of 2023 could be of crucial importance - as...

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

    Prices will rise because goods have to be transported... * Bavaria | radical | Attack right-wing, hatred and agitation: East German conditions prevail in Bavaria. In Bavaria, alongside the CSU, the Free Voters and the AfD are gaining strength. At the same time, the Greens are being attacked more and more often. A radicalization that is unusual for West German conditions is taking place in the Free State, comments Markus...

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

    Results: July 1, 2023 - The Angry Citizen Republic or: Everyone plays for the AfD * June 4, 2023 - Politics with poison, agitation and propaganda * October 16, 2022 - The “Friends of MIK” in AFD, CDU/CSU and FDP are ready to fight for the nuclear industry until democracy is over. * Communication is a fine art YouTube historical revisionism...

  19. Newsletter XXXVII 2023 - September 10th to 16th - News+ How Germany is ruining the climate with billions in gifts to industry

    is dealing with the serious problem that it is hardly benefiting from the traffic light government crisis. The old pendulum of federal politics - what the "red-green" camp loses in support, the CDU and CSU (and vice versa) gain - no longer works... September 15th Official reveals data from a journalist to right-wing extremists Violation of data protection: By one Officials betrayed to neo-Nazis The...

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

    Discourse shifts to the right. Memorials criticize a “shambles of memory politics”. BERLIN taz | On Sunday, Bavarian Prime Minister Markus Söder (CSU) ended the Aiwanger case and the revelations about an anti-Semitic inflammatory newspaper. For right-wing extremism researcher Miro Dittrich from the Center for Monitoring, Analysis and Strategy, this is not the case...

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