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

    schwer zugesetzt. Uno-Generalsekretär António Guterres forderte am Montag alle Länder auf, das Hilfswerk weiter aktiv zu unterstützen. Es sei lebenswichtig für die Flüchtlinge... * Skandal | Justiz | Cum-Ex Steuerskandal Cum-Ex Chefermittlerin kündigt überraschend und übt Kritik Ihre Ermittlungen führten zu ersten Urteilen im Steuerskandal Cum-Ex und brachten Kanzler Scholz in Erklärungsnot:...

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

    und fordern strengere Klimaziele. Die Zahl der Klimaklagen nimmt seit einigen Jahren zu (siehe Grafik 1). Umwelt- und klimabewegte Anwälte sowie Bürgerinnen und Bürger und Umweltverbände haben die Justiz als Waffe im Klimaschutz entdeckt. Sie schaffen damit Aufmerksamkeit für die Klimakrise – und setzen Politiker und CEOs unter Druck. Es ist nicht unwahrscheinlich, dass sie damit zumindest...

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    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 Karlsruher Gericht besser geschützt werden könnte – durch die Aufnahme zentraler...

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

    Damage to the water pump of Unit 4 discovered... Nuclear power accidents by country#Belgium Translated with https://www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version) March 17th Right-wing extremist | Justice | Defensive democracy Right-wing extremists and the justice system: “A slap in the face” Despite protests from the city, right-wing extremists were allowed to hold an event in Schwerin town hall, the judiciary decided. She...

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

    nothing changed. The journalist with a Spanish and Russian passport will be in solitary confinement next Wednesday for exactly two years for alleged spying for Russia. At the request of the public prosecutor, the Polish judiciary has just extended the pre-trial detention for another three months. Furthermore, neither evidence nor charges have been presented against the Basque, nor has there been a trial...

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

    Navalny is probably dead. This report from Russia spread rapidly around the world on Friday (February 16). According to the Russian judiciary, emergency paramedics from the Labytnangi hospital arrived at the prison within seven minutes and fought for the life of the Kremlin opponent for half an hour - but in vain. But can that be true? Because according to the...

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

    new dependencies. Imports of LNG to Europe, especially from the USA and Qatar, have doubled in the last two years, he warned... February 1 Slovakia | demonstrations | Justice Tens of thousands demonstrate again against judicial reform In Slovakia, there are probably the largest demonstrations across the country to date against the planned judicial reform of the left-wing national government of...

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

    There are “very high hurdles” for a ban on the AfD, says Federal Interior Minister Nancy Faden. Federal Justice Minister Marco Buschmann warns that there is a risk of a “huge PR victory for the AfD” in the event of a procedural defeat. The same picture in proceedings for the forfeiture of fundamental rights by Björn Höcke: 1,5 million people have submitted the petition for action under Article 18 of the...

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

    It is David Davis who, as a Tory, is most likely to be heard in government circles. “Everyone, regardless of color, politics, origin or religion, deserves a fair trial, fair justice, not arbitrary deprivation of liberty,” he begins with a remark about his former work for prisoners in Guantanamo Bay. [...] Davis ended his speech by quoting the well-known...

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

    After large sums of cash were found during raids on Eva Kaili, all of the accused have been released and Kaili has long been back in and out of parliament. Meanwhile, the investigations by the Belgian judiciary appear to be coming to nothing. But a large number of new, overwhelming evidence has just been published, but Parliament is falling on its feet by not launching any investigations...

  11. 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”

    are... December 13th EU Commission | Hungary | Ukraine Before the Ukraine summit, the EU Commission releases blocked billions for Hungary. The EU withheld funding because Orbán had weakened the justice system in the country. According to the EU Commission, the rule of law is now improving. The European Commission releases ten billion euros in frozen EU funds for...

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

    Monsanto, which now belongs to the German Bayer Group, is conducting the glyphosate business under the brand name Roundup... * Guatemala defends itself against corruption and conspiracy in the military and judiciary Guatemala before the change of power: judiciary under corrupt control Even before he is sworn in, the elected Putting obstacles in the way of President Bernardo Arévalo. It will still be in January...

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

    Former Prime Minister Yair Lapid, who is in the opposition, has already offered his full cooperation in a “very long war”. If Lapid's supporters, who have risen against the judicial reform, also agree to this, Benjamin Netanyahu's right-wing coalition will have won across the board and will become a government of national harmony. In any case it will...

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

    the raids against the Last Generation are an attack on civil society. But protest movements should reflect more closely on their work. Last week it became known that the Bavarian justice system not only searched Last Generation's apartments in May, but that Fridays for Future were also indirectly affected by the raids. We spoke to Luisa Neubauer about which...

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

    Federal reporting office receives 100 anonymous tips Two and a half months ago, the federal government created a position for whistleblowers, which is already being used extensively: According to the Ministry of Justice, more than 100 reports have been received. Companies have until the end of the year to set up a secure portal for whistleblowers. Since the so-called whistleblower law came into force,...

  16. Newsletter XXXIV 2023 - August 20th to 26th - News+ The sun will shine for another 4,5 billion years

    Bernardo Arévalo wins the presidential election with around 58 percent. The Central American country filled the headlines with an adventurous election campaign, the arbitrariness of a corrupt judiciary - and a seed of hope. This seed is the Semilla (Seed) party of the social democratic Arévalo, who is decried as a communist by opponents. His central project:...

  17. Newsletter XXII 2023 - May 28th to June 3rd - News+ Political style in Germany Please, strengthen the AfD

    to glorify and to disturb the public peace". Wait a minute! Did they really write "... to glorify National Socialism"? [...] Whoever put this formulation and this accusation on paper in the Berlin judicial authority proves it This means at best his (or her) ignorance of music history, because both stylistic devices are similar to the character "Pink" from "The Wall"...

  18. Newsletter XV 2023 - April 9th ​​to 15th - News+ Traffic light climate, Switzerland as a role model and the better alternative to e-fuels

    - finally taken offline after a decades-long battle. Hundreds of thousands took to the streets for this, and tens of thousands had to make rather unpleasant encounters with the police and justice system. The next trial is currently scheduled for Monday, April 17th at 13.15:XNUMX p.m. in the Ahaus District Court - this time in connection with the spectacular occupation of electricity pylons on...

  19. Newsletter X 2023 - March 5th to 11th - News+ Dangerous toxins: Which products contain PFAS

    The Basque journalist Pablo González has been in solitary confinement in the Radom prison in Poland for a year now. The Polish judiciary accuses him of allegedly spying for Russia. As was widely feared, the responsible court extended the pre-trial detention for a further three months after a year. So he will...

  20. Newsletter IV 2023 - January 22nd to 28th - News+ How the FDP politician Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann plays down her proximity to the armaments lobby

    Essentially nothing remains of the more than 20.000 pages of investigation files against nuclear waste repository opponents... * France | Climate protection | Investigations | Greenwashing France's judiciary is investigating TotalEnergies on suspicion of greenwashing The French judiciary is investigating the oil and gas company TotalEnergies on suspicion of misleading business methods in climate protection....

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