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

    citing the police. Only rubble remains of some houses. Photos and videos showed buildings of which only a mountain of rubble remained. In addition, the power went out in thousands of households. [...] Severe weather warnings were in effect for more than 50 million residents. In addition to storms and heavy rain, hail is also expected in some places. Experts attribute the accumulation of...

  2. Newsletter XVI 2024 - April 14th to 20th - News+ Poland: The Tusk government is also relying on nuclear energy

    published, i.e. before the recent escalation in the wake of the military strikes by Israel and Iran. [...] German military budget: increase by 90 percent The German defense budget has been increased the most in recent years compared to the budgets of the other ministries, from 38,5 to 51,95 billion euros. In addition, there are 20 billion from...

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

    but often experience exclusion. [...] The authors' conclusion: Union and traffic light should work better together instead of blocking each other. The upcoming negotiations on the 2025 budget are “perhaps the last chance to reverse the trend in the middle in time.” IMHO Anyone who runs after the military-industrial complex belongs to the establishment. *...

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

    could there be four! Life in the Imperial State I have viewed America's endless catastrophic wars this century from a great distance. I've seen the recent US military budget approaching $900 billion and undoubtedly heading toward the "cool" $XNUMX trillion mark in the coming years, while years ago the entire budget was dedicated to "national...

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    and non-violent coexistence would no longer receive financial support. Many democratically committed organizations would therefore be on the brink of extinction. These programs are the state's budget resources, which are negotiated in the state parliament and cabinet and then defined in terms of content by the responsible ministry. The scenario that an AfD-led...

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

    found a majority. The states also gave the green light for the dismantling of subsidies for agricultural diesel and the quality atlas for hospitals. In addition, they approved the second budget financing law, which, among other things, provides for stricter sanctions on citizens' money and lower federal subsidies for statutory pensions. Also a regulation that bans biodiesel from 100...

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

    in addition to the EU Effort Sharing Regulation. If Germany continues to miss these European targets because of Volker Wissing's denial of reality, it will be expensive for the federal budget."... March 15th Emissions | Climate goals | traffic | Heating Germany's emissions balance 2023: Not entirely clear calculation Germany seems to be able to achieve its climate targets by 2030. That's great -...

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

    Federal Audit Office. We remember: Conclusion of the 2018 report: The Federal Ministry of Economics is insufficiently and inadequately coordinating the energy transition. The burden on the economy and households is enormous. Nevertheless, Germany will miss almost all of its energy transition goals by 2020. Conclusion 2021: The federal government is inadequately controlling the energy transition. A reliable and...

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

    SPD and Greens respond to sharp criticism. Social groups call the idea “indecent.” The coalition is debating whether and how the Bundeswehr can be financed exclusively from the general budget from 2028, as Chancellor Olaf Scholz plans to do. Federal Finance Minister Christian Lindner, who is also FDP leader, had proposed keeping social spending at the current level for three years...

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

    Nuclear energy is becoming more expensive: Why the price of electricity is rising in France France has long been known for cheap electricity, but the costs for previously cheap nuclear power have exploded. This means higher electricity bills for households in the future. Households in France will have to dig deeper into their pockets for nuclear power in the future. The state-owned nuclear company EDF has debts of almost 65 billion. A...

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

    the development aid that she had not even started. Joana Cotar started with the bike paths in Peru. 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. At 16....

  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

    self-commissioned report concluded that the banks had no claim to the funds... * United States | Power outages | Storm Violent storms in the USA 811.000 households and businesses without power - at least three dead Violent winter storms have hit parts of the USA: several people died, buildings collapsed, hundreds of thousands of households were...

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

    “Grams count,” Zukunft Gas has persuaded the public that gas is climate-friendly. In terms of their balance sheet, natural gas power plants can even be more harmful to the climate than coal blocks... * Electricity price | Federal budget | Network fees No subsidy for network fees Electricity is only cheap on the exchange and from the roof. The network authority and large electricity producers are predicting rising electricity prices in 2024, especially for...

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

    While Germany is arguing about Robert Habeck's heating law, the Dutch are getting creative. In their search for heat sources, they have now discovered the sewer system and want to heat millions of households sustainably. I once lived in a house where every morning the double flushing of the upstairs neighbor's toilet echoed loudly through our kitchen. Now...

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

    estimated in euros. But a Greenpeace study shows: They could grow to up to 2 trillion euros. Heads are spinning again in Berlin. The traffic light continues to try to hold together its difficult-to-reach budget agreement. The fact that she wanted to cut off almost a billion in subsidies for farmers led to so much resentment, anger and honking and angry...

  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”

    Alternative fuels and drives have long been ready for use in agriculture. The traffic light coalition has decided to abolish the agricultural diesel subsidy, which would reduce the burden on the federal budget by around 900 million euros. This step seems logical in view of the constitutional complaint filed by the CDU against the federal budget. As it was to be expected,...

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

    goal achieved in the coalition agreement... * Bundeswehr | Federal Audit Office | Armament spending “The Bundeswehr is purchasing machine guns that it cannot use” In the middle of the budget debate, the Federal Audit Office is severely criticizing the procurement of new rifles for the Bundeswehr. At a time when the federal government has to save billions of euros in its budget,...

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

    "A short circuit was generated that caused a voltage drop," the operator of the power plant, Teollisuuden Voima, had to admit the next breakdown within a few days... * 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 wrong path...

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

    “Then came the decision on Lützerath, came the 100 billion for the Bundeswehr, came GEAS. There was a basic child benefit that will effectively not help any child out of poverty, and a federal budget that wanted to make savings, especially for young people. The result was a citizen's allowance that was too complicated and too low. The sector targets in the Climate Protection Act should be abolished. Deportation laws are...

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

    Reports, complicated applications Mayor in Dieblich frustrated: Bureaucracy has been delaying planned solar park for years The municipality of Dieblich is planning a solar park that will supply several thousand households with electricity. It could have been standing for a long time, but bureaucratic processes are delaying construction. Mayor Christoph Jung explains that Dieblich could actually be climate-neutral long ago...

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