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

    30 Prozent der Einkommensbezieher zu zahlen, was eine Einsparung in Höhe von etwa vier Milliarden bringe. Diese Vorschläge der Bundesbehörde wurden von Bundesfinanzminister Christian Lindner (FDP) und der Ampel-Regierung insgesamt jedoch nicht aufgegriffen. * Menschenrecht | Asyl Asylgesetz: Britisches Parlament verabschiedet umstrittenes Ruanda-Gesetz Migranten, die mit Booten in Großbritannien...

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

    die Ampel das Klimaschutzgesetz aufweicht. Erst haben die Ampelparteien über viele Monate darüber gestritten, jetzt geht es hopp, hopp: Am Montag verkündeten die Fraktionschefs von SPD, Grünen und FDP die Einigung über die Änderung des Klimaschutzgesetzes und des Solarpakets, bereits in der Woche darauf soll beides durch den Bundestag und den Bundesrat gepeitscht werden. Der Ampel ist wie etwa...

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

    19 Freiheit des Marktes kann eingeschränkt werden Allerdings gehen die Pläne der Kommission noch weit hierüber hinaus... * Klimapolitik | Klimaschutzgesetz | Verkehrsminister Ränkespiele der FDP beim Klimaschutzgesetz Mit Angstmache vor großflächigen Auto-Fahrverboten will Bundesverkehrsminister Wissing die Verabschiedung des neuen Klimaschutzgesetzes erzwingen. Dahinter verbergen sich...

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

    und Antisemitismus“: Parteiennachwuchs protestiert gegen Palästina-Kongress in Berlin Israelhasser planen in einer Woche einen Palästina-Kongress. Die Jugendorganisationen von SPD, Union, FDP und Grünen rufen nun gemeinsam zum Protest auf. Gegen den für 12. bis 14. April in Berlin geplanten „Palästina-Kongress“ regt sich weiterer Protest. Die Jugendorganisationen von SPD, Union, FDP und Grünen...

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    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 Karlsruher Gericht besser geschützt werden könnte – durch die Aufnahme zentraler Elemente in das Grundgesetz. Dazu...

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

    Regulierung durch die Bundesnetzagentur. Wenn der Staat nun nicht nur Gesetzgeber, sondern auch Eigentümer und Regulierer der Übertragungsnetze werden sollte, sieht dies hauptsächlich die FDP kritisch, hat jedoch selbst keinen besseren Vorschlag. * Vereinigte Staaten | UN-Resolution | Feuerpause UN-Resolution vorgelegt USA fordern "sofortige Feuerpause" im Gazastreifen Die USA wollen Israel...

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

    Kooperationen mit der AfD oder anderen weit rechts stehenden Parteien und Gruppierungen gehen auf das Konto der CDU. Das Team der Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung fand im Untersuchungszeitraum 52 Fälle. Die FDP hat sich in 22 Fällen auf eine Zusammenarbeit eingelassen, während die Grünen das nur fünfmal und damit am seltensten taten... * Klimaschutz | Verkehrssektor | Gebäudesektor Emissionsdaten 2023:...

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

    Hinzu kommt ein fehlendes Konzept gegen hohe Strompreise. Egal, wer regiert, ob eine Groko die Energiewende blockiert oder ob Teile einer Ampel-Regierung, abzüglich vor allem der FDP, endlich versuchen, jahrzehntealte Rückstände aufzuholen – der Bundesrechnungshof kommt zum nahezu immergleichen Ergebnis. [...] Die Chefin des Energiebranchenverbandes BDEW zieht denn auch eine andere...

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

    konnte Atomstrom zu wettbewerbsfähigen Preisen gehandelt werden." Viele Kritiker des Atomausstiegs, darunter CSU-Chef Markus Söder, Freie-Wähler-Chef Hubert Aiwanger sowie weite Teile von Union, FDP und AfD erklären immer wieder, dass Deutschland nur mit der Nutzung der Kernenergie dauerhaft niedrige und verlässliche Energiepreise haben kann. Auch die Bundesnetzagentur hatte aber im vergangenen...

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

    The CDU prefers to pretend that it is not a people's party - but a make-a-wish group in the beer tent. That only benefits the AfD. Even in the analysis, the parties are far apart. The Union and FDP believe that Germany primarily has a “competition problem” and that the “location is in danger”. However, the numbers don't show that. In 2023, the Federal Republic recorded a...

  11. Newsletter VII 2024 - February 11th to 17th - Current+ super election year in the crucial climate decade

    is said to have given friends funding for hydrogen projects. An internal audit revealed otherwise - the ministry sees itself as having been deceived. Federal Transport Minister Volker Wissing (FDP) has replaced his hydrogen department head after allegations of nepotism. Wissing has decided to relieve Klaus Bonhoff of his duties with immediate effect, said...

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

    vote for stricter CO₂ rules for trucks and buses The European compromise was in jeopardy until the end because the federal government wanted to back down. The reason was a blockade by the FDP. A majority of EU countries have approved plans for stricter CO₂ standards for trucks and buses. This was announced by the Belgian EU Council Presidency. The project had a short-term...

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

    from 35 percent iron oxide content in the bauxite sludge, as the team reports... * Nuclear lobby | Renewable | WNISR nuclear lobbyist elected to the board of the Renewable Energy Research Association Union and FDP, together with the right-wing radical AFD, are trying to give nuclear energy in Germany a future again. They justify this with currently high electricity prices and a weak expansion of...

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

    planned joint venture with Rosatom in Germany, but kept the reasons for this secret to this day... * Europe | Lobbying | Supply chain EU supply chain law on the brink of extinction: FDP and business lobby attack draft compromise Shortly before the final vote, the lobby associations' campaigns against the law are taking a sharp tone - this is shown by unpublished letters...

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

    urgent appeal to Finance Minister Lindner. It's about socially just climate policy. 16 associations have jointly written an open letter to Federal Finance Minister Christian Lindner (FDP). They are demanding that the climate money be paid out during this legislative period. The letter is available exclusively to SPIEGEL. At the weekend, the minister said in an interview that...

  16. 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

    Victor Klemperer - Holocaust survivor - analyzed this approach during the Nazi regime... * Peasant protests | bureaucracy | Vehicle tax Before the final rally during farmers' protests, FDP leader Lindner offers farmers relief Berlin · Despite the massive protests, the government does not want to make any further concessions to the farmers: the planned, gradual dismantling will remain...

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

    According to Federal Finance Minister Christian Lindner, this should be reviewed. Due to inflation expectations, the standard rate of citizen's money rose sharply on January 1st, the FDP politician told the "Stuttgarter Zeitung" and the "Stuttgarter Nachrichten". "Therefore, the calculation method must be checked so that inflation is not overestimated." The social association...

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

    Scholz is someone who has a lot of experience with government apparatus. And Christian Lindner? Well, Lindner. These days it is easy for many people to blame all the traffic light failures in climate protection on the FDP, the eternal naysayers. Also because it has so obviously deliberately delayed climate policy measures. But that would be too easy. Because the failure of the traffic light in climate policy, and...

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

    a real competition between the parties as to how best to keep refugees and migrants away. The most recent highlights, just from the weeks since October 10th: The FDP wants to use “financial blocking” to prevent refugees from supporting their families in their country of origin with parts of their social benefits via bank transfer. The deputy CDU parliamentary group leader Jens...

  20. 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”

    Revier will be compensated,” the EU Commission announced on Monday in Brussels. According to the German coal phase-out law, electricity will no longer be generated from coal from 2038. The traffic light parties SPD, Greens and FDP had agreed in their coalition agreement to “ideally” bring forward the coal phase-out from 2038 to 2030. Germany had already reported the compensation payment to the Commission in 2021...

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