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    neulich die heiklen und komplizierten Gespräche mit der Ampel über einen besseren Schutz des Verfassungsgerichtes vor extremen Kräften platzen lassen. Dann besann sich die Fraktionsführung um Friedrich Merz (CDU) wieder und kehrte doch an den Verhandlungstisch bei Bundesjustizminister Marco Buschmann (FDP) zurück. Und nun liegt bereits ein erster Gesetzentwurf als Arbeitspapier vor, wie das...

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

    es von Anfang an die Union, denn eine Grundgesetzänderung gibt es nur mit Zweidrittelmehrheit. CDU und CSU zeigten sich anfangs aufgeschlossen. Nun wollen sie aber doch nicht mehr. Parteichef Friedrich Merz eierte schon bei der Generaldebatte vor drei Wochen herum, er stelle eine Zustimmung zu Grundgesetzänderungen "heute grundsätzlich nicht in Aussicht". Nun sagte die Fraktionsspitze, in Person...

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

    What actually happens is extremely low, because the German power grid is one of the most stable in Europe and also in the world. The security of supply continues to increase. Although Friedrich Merz personally warned in autumn 2022 that Germany was threatened with a “blackout”. It is one of the narratives that Merz has adopted from the far right. But back to the question: If it...

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

    keep this expensive form of energy generation as an “option”. A change of course is needed, says the “Heidelberg Declaration”. CDU leader Friedrich Merz called the shutdown of the last nuclear power plants a “black day for Germany”... * Democracy | populism | Neoliberalism How to bring down the AfD The democratic parties are dismayed by the...

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

    Civil society cannot solve the problem alone. Former Constitutional Court President Hans-Jürgen Papier is against it, as are Federal Finance Minister Christian Lindner and CDU leader Friedrich Merz. Against a ban on the AfD. The arguments of the opponents of the ban are reminiscent of their school days. Even back then, in history and politics lessons, there were arguments against...

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

    Call for reforms. The dispute in the Union over how to deal with the debt brake is not letting up. Berlin's governing mayor Kai Wegner has responded to criticism from CDU federal chairman Friedrich Merz and repeated his call for a reform of the debt brake. "I have a clear stance: reforming the debt brake for future investments is urgently needed,"...

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

    now wants to “hold the big polluters accountable”... * AfD | CDU | Merzthutjanix Right-wing tussle Union and AfD Even lying phrases develop a life of their own. The fact that Friedrich Merz spoke at the end of 2021 about his party maintaining a “firewall against the AfD” is now blowing up in the face of the Union as it tries to maneuver politically. What happened on Thursday in the Thuringian...

  8. Newsletter XXXI 2023 - July 30th to August 05th - News+ Brussels buys more fire-fighting aircraft to fight forest fires

    with WirtschaftsWoche. Greenland's deputy mining minister Jørgen Hammeken-Holm confirmed to the magazine that a mining permit had been issued... * Merzthutjanix Friedrich Merz's grandfather The mayor of Brilon Josef Paul Sauvigny (1875-1967), the “unification of all German blood” in 1933 and a precursor chapter the CDU party history. The Sauerlander Friedrich Merz leads the...

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

    a problem for the CDU. It's not up to its neck yet, after all, the Union has been the strongest force in Germany in the polls since last year. But as party leader Friedrich Merz demonstrated once again at the weekend, the topic is explosive. With his unfortunate appearance in the ZDF summer interview, he caused an outcry. He had the uncompromising rejection...

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

    are... * Military research | Merzthutjanix | Ban voluntary work in the summer slump? Daniel Lücking on the civil clause at universities On the way to the approaching summer slump, CDU leader Friedrich Merz is providing material for discussion. He calls for the civil clause at universities to be abolished, which states that research on military topics is not allowed there. This is doubly important...

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

    Between 1961 and 1990 it was only 51 percent of the target value at 60 liters per square meter. If you take the years 1991 to 2020 as a reference, it was only 70 percent of the usual... June 30th Friedrich Merz leads the CDU with the "Agenda for Germany" into a junior partnership with the AfD Friedrich Merz in the culture war: For the cheap Success The CDU leader describes the Greens as...

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

    But instead of distancing themselves, the other parties are coming closer together thematically. [...] It is now the others' fault again, the "weak and constantly arguing government," said Friedrich Merz. His party, on the other hand, has “nothing to do” with the AfD. As if he had never spoken of “little Pashas”, as if the CDU had not wanted to ask for first names, as if the Bautzen district administrator had not...

  13. Newsletter XIX 2023 - May 7-13 - News+ Is the West turning Ukraine into a nuclear battlefield?

    ... May 9 Media | Blackout | Scaremongering What happened to all the blackout scaremongering? Do you still know? “Angry Winter”? Blackout scaremongering in the right-wing media? CDU leader Friedrich Merz, who said there would be a threat of a blackout at the beginning of 2023? Headlines like those in “WELT” that made a blackout seem inevitable? Some, like the right-wing extremist...

  14. Newsletter XVII 2023 - April 23rd to 29th - News+ Faulty SPD, self-deception at 1,5 degrees and war as a climate destroyer

    | Merzthutjanix | Back to the future “The world won’t end tomorrow”: Merz thinks climate protection is overrated in politics Politicians take climate protection too seriously, thinks CDU leader Friedrich Merz. It is not the case that “the world will end tomorrow,” said the 67-year-old in an interview with the weekly newspaper “Die Zeit”. He expressed harsh criticism of the FPD, the SPD and the Greens. CDU leader...

  15. Newsletter VI 2023 - February 5th to 11th - News+ War is peace, peace is war

    Past. “There is a risk of the power grid being completely overloaded in the fall and winter, as well as an inadequate supply of electricity.” This is what the self-proclaimed energy expert and CDU leader Friedrich Merz said in Bild am Sonntag at the beginning of September 2022. The government is to blame for sticking to the nuclear phase-out. “Habeck and the traffic lights are consciously risking a blackout,” adds the Bavarian...

  16. Newsletter II 2023 - January 8th to 14th - News+ We have already won

    “Climate Terrorists” came in second place with “Social Tourism”. The word was already “unword of the year” in 2013. At that time it was used to create a mood against immigration, the current reference is Friedrich Merz. He used the word 2022 in connection with refugees from Ukraine. The jury chose the term “defensive architecture” for third place. The word means a construction method that...

  17. Newsletter XLIV 2022 - November 01st to 07th - News+ Do not fear progress and technology, fear capitalism

    In the summer, the Bavarian Prime Minister called for a review of fracking permits in Lower Saxony - of course not at home in Bavaria. The CDU chairman Friedrich Merz also spoke out in favor of fracking. There is currently a ban on fracking for Germany in the Water Resources Act. After long discussions, this fracking ban was passed years ago by...

  18. Newsletter XL 2022 - October 09th to 15th - News+ In the hyperloop of excitement

    Continue to operate nuclear power plants, abolish CO2 taxes and just don't set up wind turbines. The CDU also wants to continue operating nuclear power plants, or rather its chief nuclear lobbyist Friedrich Merz, who spoke out in a tweet in favor of continuing to operate the Lingen nuclear power plant, which was shut down in 1979. He probably meant the Emsland nuclear power plant. So much for Merz's expertise in nuclear power... *...

  19. Newsletter XXXVIII 2022 - September 24th to 30th - News+ Fridays for Future calls for a special fund of 100 billion euros for climate protection

    not... * Merzthutjanix | Social tourism | Provocation “Fully apologize” Ukraine refugees as social tourists: CDU leader Merz rows back after severe criticism Friedrich Merz has accused refugees from Ukraine of “social tourism”. What followed was outrage and criticism. Now the CDU leader speaks out on Twitter and regrets his comments...

  20. Newsletter XXXVII 2022 - September 17 to 23 - News+ Low-level ionizing radiation also poses a risk

    Britta Haßelmann, federal parliamentary group leader of the Green Party, summed up the debate as being as fact-free as the one about extending the life of nuclear power plants. In any case, CDU leader Friedrich Merz never misses an opportunity to claim that continuing to operate the nuclear reactors for three to five years could solve the current energy crisis. Quite apart from the...

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