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ein, der eine Vollmitgliedschaft Palästinas bei den Vereinten Nationen vorsieht. Damit scheiterte die Beschlussvorlage. Zwölf Mitgliedsländer des UNSC stimmten für die Vorlage, die Schweiz und Großbritannien enthielten sich. "Hintergrund ist die Befürchtung der Regierung in Washington, dass mit einem solchen Schritt faktisch ein Palästinenser-Staat anerkannt werden würde", schreibt die FAZ. Das...
Newsletter XV 2024 - April 7th to 13th - News+ Shell pleads not guilty
einem Terrorangriff oder einem Flugzeugabsturz geschützt. "Über hundert Castoren lagern in Gundremmingen und jeder enthält das zigfache dessen, was in Tschernobyl freigesetzt wurde", sagt Kurt Schweizer, einer der Kläger, der im benachbarten Offingen lebt. Er befürchtet, dass durch einen schwerwiegenden Unfall ganze Landkreise jahrhundertelang nicht mehr bewohnbar sein könnten. [...]...
Newsletter XIV 2024 - March 31st to April 6th - News+ - It's not just Germany that is getting out
Saving production at the photovoltaic group Meyer Burger in Freiberg. Competitive module production in Europe is possible, say solar experts. The end of solar module production by the Swiss company Meyer Burger in Freiberg, Saxony, announced last week, shocked many supporters of the energy transition. It should actually be the core of a new leading German...
Europe, but it was no longer “profitable”. The drama of the decline of the photovoltaic industry, especially in East Germany, less than 10 years ago is being repeated again, especially on a small scale. The Swiss company Meyer Burger has just fired 400 employees in Freiberg, and something similar is threatened at Solarwatt in Dresden or at the Brandenburg glass factory in Tschernitz. Solar clearcutting is...
Newsletter XI 2024 - March 10th to 16th - News+ There is every reason to be afraid of the AfD
to produce. There, government programs such as the $400 billion Inflation Reduction Act promote climate-friendly transformation. On Thursday, the Swiss-based company announced that it had made a loss of over 2023 million euros in 300. It is therefore necessary to close the production facility in Saxony. [...] There is also a geopolitical argument: the...
Newsletter X 2024 - March 3rd to 9th - News+ More courage would be good
In an interview, Pope Francis called on Ukraine to show the “courage of the white flag” and to hold negotiations with Russia. This is reported by Reuters, citing the Swiss broadcaster RSI. Pope calls for negotiations Ukraine is currently unable to stop the Russian army. In the interview, recorded last month, Francis was asked...
Hinkley Point C nuclear power plant for new ones, but in this case a subsidy model through the back door for the aging, existing French nuclear fleet. * Subsidies | Meyer Burger Swiss solar manufacturer What exactly is solar emigrant Meyer Burger up to? Meyer Burger will stop production in Freiberg in Saxony in March - and is betting everything on a new beginning in the USA. What...
| Tax the Rich Proposal to abolish solidarity: Pay the rich, please! If only a small group gave up a portion, Germany wouldn't have to worry about the tax authorities. Switzerland and Spain show how it works. The FDP has imposed a strong taboo on the country - so strong that no member of the government is currently thinking about it, let alone talking about it. Higher taxes are considered...
have fallen by almost 50 percent this year. This makes the German energy transition significantly cheaper, but the Chinese PV flood is becoming a problem for European companies like Meyer Burger. The Swiss solar equipment manufacturer is threatening to close its factory in Freiberg, Saxony, if the federal government does not ensure fair competition. Julia Hammelehle from the Munich Security Conference...
Newsletter IV 2024 - January 21st to 27th - Current news + AfD ban: Off to Karlsruhe?
caused the pressure pipe to burst. 1100 kg of heavy water, melted radioactive material and radioactive gases were thrown into the reactor cavern... Nuclear power plants Plag Lucens, Switzerland 1969 The reactor was called the "Experimental Nuclear Power Plant Lucens (VAKL)". The owner was the National Society for the Promotion of Industrial Nuclear Technology and the operator was the Energy of...
Preparing for a possible war with Russia, while hardly any effort is being made to get out of the current spiral of escalation... * France | Switzerland | Mobile phones | SAR value device radiation: Federal Council opposes control Over 40 mobile phones have so far failed French safety tests. Switzerland continues to take a very conscious look...
Framatome, which belongs to the state-dominated electricity giant Électricité de France (EdF). The Lingen factory supplies nuclear power plants in the Netherlands, Belgium and Switzerland with fresh uranium fuel. There could even be an expansion of the facility in the near future. Framatome has a joint venture with TWEL, a subsidiary of the Russian state nuclear company...
was able to head a security authority like the BfV until 2018. [...] On November 11th, the former head of the Office for the Protection of the Constitution published an article in the right-wing Weltwoche, the weekly magazine of the Swiss publisher Roger Köppel. In it he metaphorically compares an “uncontrolled, million-strong settlement of foreigners from culturally alien regions” with a...
on the scale from one to five, on which five is the highest value, with a three minus only a place in the lower midfield together with Italy and Spain. Only Switzerland, Greece and, above all, Poland perform even worse. According to the analysis, the use of heat pumps in Germany continues despite significant efforts by the federal government and the Bundestag...
Up to two thirds of the European population will be affected by weather extremes every year, and without further adaptation measures to global climate change between 2071 and 2100, 80.000 to 240.000 people will die per year in the EU, Switzerland, Norway and Iceland. Between 1981 and 2010, around 3.000 Europeans lost their lives in weather disasters every year. 99% of...
that the energy policy goal is changed "from 100% renewable energy to 100% fossil fuel free"... Translation with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version) * Switzerland | Transport policy | Local transport Investments in Deutsche Bahn: It's worth taking a look at Switzerland Invest generously in rails, forego complicated tariffs and stay on the carpet: The...
The representatives of 31 of these countries sit in the hall. There are more than 80 lawyers. The lawsuit is aimed at all EU member states, as well as Norway, Switzerland, Turkey, Great Britain and Russia, which, however, is not represented. These countries are also fighting: against this high European court declaring the lawsuit admissible. And the...
Newsletter XXXVIII 2023 - September 17th to 23rd - News+ A future that I dread
was imposed by the EU Commission after a settlement procedure, as the EU authority announced. "Today we are fining Diehl because the company formed a cartel with its Swiss competitor RUAG over the sale of hand grenades," said EU Competition Commissioner Didier Reynders. [...] RUAG does not have to pay a penalty because the company...
Cesium was washed out by rain, bound in minerals and transported deep into the ground. As a result, today only traces of this radionuclide are absorbed by plants and animals... * Switzerland | decommissioning | Mühleberg Fuel unloading in Mühleberg completed All nuclear fuel from the decommissioned Mühleberg nuclear power plant has been transported to the Zwilag interim storage facility in Würenlingen...
Newsletter XXXIV 2023 - August 20th to 26th - News+ The sun will shine for another 4,5 billion years
Theoretically, HSK would have still had a cross-connection to the emergency diesel of the shut down unit 2, but this diesel was also under maintenance... Nuclear power plantsPlag Beznau (Switzerland) Greenpeace has published a fact sheet on Beznau with a list of incidents. Afterwards, for example, two workers died in 1992 while they were in a room with argon that had not been pumped out...
