1. Newsletter

    Companies suffer from subsidized cheap imports from China. They are demanding support in order to be able to stand up to this distortion of competition. The SPD and the Greens were in favor of help in the negotiations over the recently passed Solar Package I - also in order not to increase the dependence on Chinese products. The FDP is against it and has prevailed. * Emissions |...

  2. Newsletter XVIII 2024 - April 28th to May 4th - News+ Hubris of the West: Three decades of chaos and decline

    to be able to send new soldiers to the front so that Russian troops can advance and perhaps achieve a major breakthrough. Since the USA and the NATO states rejected negotiations about Russia's security demands before the war and thus helped provoke the war, after the peace negotiations between Ukraine and Russia were broken off, only...

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

    Klimawandels zurück. * Russland | Ukraine | Friedensvertrag Geheimer Friedensvertrag hätte Ukraine-Krieg nach wenigen Wochen beenden können Moskau und Kiew waren nach Kriegsbeginn im Grunde zu Verhandlungslösung bereit. Wie trug die Nato zur Eskalation bei? Was ein jetzt öffentlicher Vertragsentwurf verrät. Ein geheimer Vertragsentwurf, der den Krieg zwischen Russland und der Ukraine nach nur...

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

    Solar package, both should be passed through the Bundestag and the Bundesrat the following week. As with the Heating Act, it is once again not clear to the traffic light that internal negotiations in no way replace the usual parliamentary procedure. After all, large parts of the solar package are a great achievement. Countless private individuals and companies are waiting for the...

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

    They strive to connect, 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...

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

    JERUSALEM taz | Israel's protest movement is back: On Sunday evening, tens of thousands of participants called for new elections and negotiations with Hamas in the largest demonstration since the start of the war in front of the parliament in Jerusalem. “We are one step from the abyss,” shouted Moshe Radman, one of the organizers, from the speaker’s stage. “The people who really threaten us are Prime Minister Netanyahu...

  7. Newsletter

    turned around Rigaer Straße and finally returned to the starting point. They demonstrated against a military solution to the Ukraine war and for a diplomatic solution in negotiations with Russia. According to the police, around 3500 participants gathered. It feels like there are significantly more. In any case, 6000 demonstrators were registered. [...] banners are to...

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

    The Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution is trying to prevent a quick decision on her classification as a suspected right-wing extremist case. However, the party failed right at the start of the hearing at the Münster Higher Administrative Court. Among other things, the court rejected an application against the appointment of the Senate. The presiding judge Gerald Buck accused the AfD of abusing the law. The...

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

    Akw Three Mile Island, USA We are always looking for current information. If you can help, please send a message to: nucleare-welt@reaktorpleite.de March 9th Ukraine | Peace negotiations | Pope Pope Francis: Ukraine should have the courage to raise the white flag Pope appeals to Ukraine to dare to hold peace talks. Francis advocates courage for the “white flag”...

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

    into the Basic Law - for example the two-thirds majority required for the election of judges. The Union faction in the Bundestag declared last week that it did not want to negotiate with the traffic light factions about such a reform. Your consent would be necessary for a corresponding change to the Basic Law... * Ukraine War | EU Parliament | Cruise missile criticism of Olaf Scholz...

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

    withheld. But no other hostages have been freed since the last ceasefire at the end of November. [...] Despite the negotiations, the military action in the Gaza Strip does not appear to be letting up. According to the Hamas-controlled health authority, 24 people were killed and 127 injured in Gaza within 178 hours on Sunday night. The information leaves...

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

    Martin programs on the future of plastic at Oxford University and Europe's science academies are now a move away from conventional plastic production. The background is the ongoing negotiations about an international plastics agreement, which are currently being conducted at the United Nations level. [...] However, it will still take some time until a UN agreement is reached. The next...

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

    | Climate money | Fortune Greens are putting pressure on: Climate money should be on the agenda Green politicians are quickly calling for compensation for the rising CO₂ price. This should be part of the budget negotiations. BERLIN taz | In view of the increasing burdens on citizens, calls within the Greens for the rapid introduction of climate money are becoming louder. “The Greens have to...

  14. 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”

    dependent In order to make aid payments to Ukraine, the 27 EU states must reach a consensus decision. But Hungary is standing in the way. Although the path to accession negotiations with the EU is clear for Ukraine, further billions in aid from the 27 member states have failed for the time being due to Hungary's resistance. Now Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has received approval from his country...

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

    Oil and gas must come to an end. However, there is still no international resolution from all countries declaring their willingness to do so - even after almost three decades of climate negotiations. That could change at the World Climate Conference in Dubai, which runs until next week. The topic will be discussed - but it is also the number one point of contention. Because not everyone pulls...

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

    Progress, the energy transition that needs to be managed and the question of what fair climate protection, and even fair coexistence in the world, actually looks like. At the same time, negotiations have been underway for months by a company based in the UAE that wants to buy rights to vast African forest areas in a series of comprehensive compensation deals. An area of ​​at least 25 is affected...

  17. THTR Circular No. 156, December 2023

    involved in the climate crisis in the costs of protective measures at the glacier lake to protect Huaraz from a flood disaster - the equivalent of 17.000 euros. An oral hearing of the lawsuit took place at the Higher Regional Court in 2017. The trial will continue in Hamm in spring 2024. As an "accompanying program" there are several rallies and activities with music taking place in Hamm. Info:...

  18. Newsletter XLVII 2023 - November 19th to 25th - News+ Spectacular setback for the development of small nuclear reactors in the USA - The dead horse

    voted against - 299 voted against, 207 for, 121 MPs abstained. But this means that the EU's plans to reduce the use of pesticides by half by 2030 have failed. Parliament also rejected further negotiations. Agricultural associations welcomed the decision. EU overturns pesticide law - two weeks after glyphosate decision It is a “black day” for...

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

    Rundfunk (WDR)'s request for an interim injunction had been granted, the Erfurt regional court announced on Thursday. According to a court spokesman, the AfD has called for an oral hearing in the matter. It is unclear how the case will continue and whether there will be a trial. [...] The DJV federal chairman Mika Beuster had announced that the AfD was "representing its disturbed relationship with...

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

    the cancellation of the Castor plans and finally the start of construction for a new Castor warehouse in Jülich. Current news also on www.westcastor.org and www.bi-ahaus.de * Public transport | bureaucracy | Repowering Negotiations in the Chancellery The federal and state governments agree on the continuation of the Germany ticket and the “acceleration pact.” The Germany ticket will also exist in the future – possibly with price increases....

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