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

    positions will be further undermined. In times of crisis, a lot of money is often spent quickly - and this is done in a non-transparent manner and with little control. This opens the door to corruption and profit lobbying without running the risk of triggering a real debate. We experience in such a compressed form how important democracy still has, how quickly it is further restricted, how little...

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

    were worth. Nothing was thrown away. “The nuclear-weapon states still have enough fissile material in their weapons stockpiles for tens of thousands of nuclear weapons,” states IPFM. * Nuclear lobby | Nuclear Propulsion Organization for Maritime Nuclear Energy Established A new international membership organization - the Nuclear Energy Maritime Organization (NEMO) - has been launched to support stakeholders...

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

    The expropriation of national bank assets from a state that is not at war with is likely to be contrary to international law and undermine confidence in Western currencies... * Lobbying | LobbyControl | Party donation LobbyControl certifies significant progress for traffic light government Stricter rules for civil servants, a lobby footprint for laws: The government's work is impressive,...

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

    but unreasonable, none of our “quality media” provides a link or a transcript of the leak, all downplay the content as rather harmless... * Food | Lobby | Advertising ban on unhealthy foods Advertising ban on hold A year ago, Food Minister Özdemir presented his plan for a ban on advertising unhealthy foods. That's how he wants children...

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

    (EPA) from 2020. They also criticized the EPA for its decision at the time to reauthorize the funds for five years... February 13 Military Industrial Complex | Lobby | Armament Rheinmetall shares are soaring: This war winner has already been determined. At least one industry is booming as a result of the war in Ukraine – and through the indirect participation of Western states. Which role...

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

    Come to the end of their 40-year lifespan. This means: Anyone who carts nuclear waste to Ahaus today can also request that it be removed - back to Jülich or wherever... * Nuclear lobby | promises | Nuclear debate Nuclear energy Head of the authority König sees new nuclear debate as a result of ignorance The outgoing President of the Federal Office for Nuclear Safety...

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

    When the outbreak broke out in December 1978, eight people suffered an increased dose of radiation. There were also reports of various incidents during breeder operations in the 1990s... December 30th The Greens | Lobby organization "Zentrum Liberale Moderne": Obscure financial practices and questionable contacts - Greens under suspicion Questionable financial actions and political entanglements: Nepotism at...

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

    should be allowed to apply for more. “It appeals to people who want an alternative but actually prefer not to vote for the AfD,” says Ralph Ghadban... * Climate conference | Lobbyists | 1,5 degrees | COP28 Anything is still possible for the climate The climate conference in Dubai is teeming with lobbyists from the oil and gas industry. This shows that for them - and the climate - it is...

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

    not available at the moment... IMHO Mr. Grossi is really an excellent entertainer, I'm always moved to tears. And he is absolutely right, there is no such thing as a fair environment. The IAEA, as a lobby and fig leaf for the nuclear industry, is financed by over 170 member states with billions of dollars, while opponents of nuclear power rely on donations from the public. * Würgassen |...

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

    At the climate summit in Dubai, a firm commitment to phasing out fossil fuels will also be decided in order to keep the 1,5 degree target within reach. * EU Parliament | Pesticides | Lobbying EU says goodbye to pesticide targets - expert outraged: "Our research results don't count" After the new approval of glyphosate for ten more years, the EU has now also opposed...

  11. Newsletter XLIV 2023 - October 29th to November 4th - News+ Uranium exports from Lingen to Russia violate EU law - study by the Greens justifies the possibility of a ban

    not only because it is a nuclear monster, but also because it is an instrument of Russian imperialism and war. Unfortunately, there is a strong lobby for Rosatom within the European Union. It is not just the nuclear industry - the French company Framatome in particular stands out here - that Rosatom wants to keep as a lucrative partner. There are also states like...

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

    to determine why this forest and meadow area should be protected, what measures are necessary and how exactly it can be managed... * Brazil | Indigenous | Agricultural lobby Historic success for indigenous people: Supreme Court in Brazil overturns controversial land law The Brazilian Supreme Court has upheld the rights of indigenous people to their...

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

    worldwide. The German Bayer AG took over Monsanto in 2018 and has "a leading position" in the global rankings, Bayer spokesman Utz Klages tells DW... * Great Britain | Fossil lobby | Gas industry leak: Anti-heat pump campaign in UK financed by gas lobby The media culture war over the heating law and the heat transition continues, not only in Germany, but also in many...

  14. Newsletter XXXI 2023 - July 30th to August 05th - News+ Brussels buys more fire-fighting aircraft to fight forest fires

    start producing electricity. The output of two megawatts is enough to power around 500 households in Sweden... * Oppenheimer, the military-industrial complex and the nuclear lobby The profiteers of Armageddon Oppenheimer and the birth of the nuclear-industrial complex. Unless you've been hiding behind a rock for the past few months, you know...

  15. Newsletter XXX 2023 - July 23-29 - News+ Chomsky: What happens when orders from Washington are not followed?

    of the Zn-H2 consortium have now combined this battery technology with alkaline water electrolysis and thus developed the new type of “double storage”... * Natural gas | LNG | Gas Lobby Exit Now: How municipal utilities are rebelling against the powerful gas lobby German gas companies have gained influence in the wake of the Russia sanctions. But criticism is growing, some municipal utilities are leaving...

  16. Newsletter XXVIII 2023 - July 9-15 - News+ Bulgaria wants to sell Russian reactors to Ukraine

    to deal with. Newspapers reported how hospital emergency rooms filled with heat victims and inmates died in prisons without air conditioning... * Gun Lobby | military-industrial complex | Ukraine's defense industry in NATO? How gun lobbyists are promoting this on Springer's Politico The US magazine Politico, which belongs to the Springer Group, published a...

  17. Newsletter XXV 2023 - June 18th to 24th - News+ US war machine: Many knew, only he disagreed

    The SPD, Union and FDP did everything they could to fend off the referendum for 100 percent renewable energy and climate neutrality by 2030... * Politics and media | military-industrial complex | Lobby of the arms industry Who fuels the war and benefits from it How the military-industrial complex influences politics and the media - The costs and risks of war are suppressed. [...]...

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

    increased concentration of uranium and plutonium suddenly - and will take centuries, if not millions of years, to break down again... * Climate Protection Act | fossil lobby | Emissions | Sectors A fiasco: Criticism of the traffic light draft for the new climate law Energy and climate – compact: The federal government is planning to weaken the climate protection law. Once again the FDP and...

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

    kept under lock and key and the legal regulation of these substances delayed... June 1st France | EDF EPR | Nuclear phase-out canceled in France Politics for the nuclear and agricultural lobby: Macron's miserable ecological balance French President Emmanuel Macron believes that the EU has issued enough environmental standards. It's not just his energy transition that's stalling. PARIS taz | Compared to the USA, does the EU...

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

    Lower Saxony and Schleswig-Holstein have at least passed the relevant laws. North Rhine-Westphalia is still preparing a corresponding law... * Fossil Lobby | FDP | Climate change deniers Have climate change deniers taken over power in the FDP parliamentary group? It was foreseeable that the Building Energy Act could become inharmonious. Such...

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