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    On paper, relocating the Castor transports to Ahaus could be cheaper than building a new interim storage facility in Jülich - which should particularly please cash-strapped FDP Federal Finance Minister Christian Lindner. This is also why Neubaur is sticking to the evacuation order for the Jülich camp, insiders speculate: The Green Party does not want to risk a new coalition clash in Berlin... *...

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

    an expensive nonsense: From 2024, the federal government will invest at least 12 billion euros annually in a “stock pension”. It has always been the favorite project of FDP Finance Minister Christian Lindner, who wants to use it to build “generational capital”. The basic idea sounds obvious at first: As is well known, there are more and more old people, but fewer young people, who pay into social security funds...

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

    successful. The whispers about “competitiveness” also have a different purpose: the Liberals and the CDU/CSU want to implement tax cuts for companies. FDP Finance Minister Christian Lindner would like to abolish the solidarity completely... * Media | Freedom of the press | State power Press freedom threatened: For or against power? Wikileaks, FragDenStaat, Correctiv: The state is moving...

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

    all about one thing: money! Trump wants NATO members to participate more in military spending and Macron expects money for the ailing French military-civilian nuclear park. [...] But Lindner, who otherwise wants to save and cut money almost everywhere, jumps on Trump's central demand in a guest article for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ). He is now calling for the European...

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

    There is also a lever on the revenue side to equip the state treasury for sustainable politics, which has not been heard from any of the larger parties. On the contrary: Ministers Christian Lindner (FDP) and Robert Habeck (Greens) are currently calling for the solidarity surcharge to be abolished because it allegedly endangers growth. Only a tiny group would have to...

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

    Because of the constant breaking of taboos, 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 was...

  7. 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

    - 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 of...

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

    to protect against the ingestion of micro- and nanoplastic particles, especially since they absorb them in the uterus before they are even born... * Citizen's money | Arithmetic artist Lindner | Money laundering method to compensate for inflation Lindner wants to have the calculation of citizen's money checked In the citizen's money debate, the finance minister has long been advocating that work...

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

    against a diesel price increase? [...] This government has the best narrator in the country in Robert Habeck. Olaf 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 they are so obviously wanton...

  10. 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”

    Information from the ARD capital studio. Details will be announced at midday. Then Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck and Finance Minister Christian Lindner want to appear before the press. According to information from the dpa news agency, a coalition committee is planned for the afternoon... * Fossil energies | 1,5 degrees | COP28 World Climate Conference calls for a move away from...

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

    It's crazy that the German state spends billions of euros every year in order to then use its climate policy to curb the undesirable consequences. Here Lindner could get serious with his postulate that the state must spend its money cleverly... November 17th CO2 emissions | Certificates | Climate protection projects | Greenwashing fraud with CO2 certificates? Why so many...

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

    Jens Spahn (CDU) wants “physical violence” against “irregular” migrants, Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) is calling for deportations “on a large scale” and Federal Finance Minister Christian Lindner (FDP) wants to cut social benefits for asylum seekers in order to mitigate “incentives”. . It is rhetoric that we are used to from the political right-wing spectrum. What kind of wind is this...

  13. Newsletter XXXIX 2023 - September 24th to 30th - News+ “Populist, verbally radical, ethnic” – and no end in sight

    of German Industry (BDI), Siegfried Russwurm, on ARD. "This works for everyone - for every company, but also for private consumers."... * Traffic Light Coalition | Arithmetic artist Lindner | Money laundering Fight against money laundering Million-dollar projects to combat money laundering stopped The new Federal Financial Criminal Police Office was intended to be a "milestone" in the fight against money laundering, it promised...

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

    for the CO2 emission certificates? You don't hear anything about this from the FDP, which says it is always committed to reducing state subsidies. The responsible Finance Minister Lindner, who is struggling to keep the new debt in the 2023 federal budget under control, has not yet made any suggestions as to how government spending can be reduced by reducing climate-damaging fossil fuels...

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

    Earn energies. In order to be able to distribute large amounts, pension funds are increasingly investing money in stocks, real estate and funds. At the federal level, Finance Minister Christian Lindner proposed this model at the beginning of 2023 under the keyword “generational capital”... * Renewables | Energy transition | Electricity consumption Renewable energies cover more than half of the electricity consumption...

  16. Newsletter XXIV 2023 - June 11th to 17th - News+ How the West is losing the Global South

    massive US subsidies. This brings criticism of the federal government. It's a serious threat. The Meyer Burger company wrote in a letter to Finance Minister Christian Lindner (FDP) that they are considering canceling projects for the further expansion of solar production in Germany - and investing in the USA instead. [...] In the USA we are being rolled over for new settlements...

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

    co-governed federal states of Baden-Württemberg and Schleswig-Holstein - and in the CSU state of Bavaria. In all three countries, climate protection laws already provide for corresponding data collection. [...] Lindner's funny interview sentence The CEO of Springer-Verlag famously asked his editor-in-chief at the time: "Please strengthen the FDP." (sic) The AfD likes Mathias "very pro-climate change" Döpfner...

  18. Newsletter XXI 2023 - 21 to 27 May - News+ World Biodiversity Day: Will the plan to restore Europe's biodiversity fail?

    about the heating law - and how the FDP is lying to you What if I told you that Habeck's draft for the heating law was already praised by the FDP in March as "open to technology", and FDP leader Lindner had already passed it as "pragmatic" and agreed to decide on it before the summer break? That everything had already been clarified and decided and the FDP was happy? You would turn to...

  19. Newsletter XX 2023 - May 14th to 20th - News+ Heat waves hit poor neighborhoods particularly hard

    It is usual for the “medium-term financial planning” for the next four years to be approved in March. Coverage gap of 20 billion euros This time, however, Finance Minister Christian Lindner (FDP) postponed publication after the government, despite long and hard negotiations, was unable to agree on how to close a coverage gap of 20 billion euros...

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

    would, in a discussion about the restructuring of our energy system, the expansion of renewable energies, in order to really shape our energy system of the future."... * Energy transition | Lindner | Kini Jödler Lindner does not see a "realistic idea" in nuclear power comeback His party was criticized for the end of nuclear power. For the FDP leader, however, the end of nuclear power is now...

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