They are far from living in poverty. However, they often cannot find affordable housing in Hamburg. Because of high rents, the city is now also supporting middle-income households. Because of ever-increasing rents, Hamburg is now also supporting middle-income households. “In order to make it possible for these households to have a subsidized rental apartment, we … Read more
More and more chairs are becoming available sooner than expected. Classroom in Suhl (January 24, 2020) The high school dropout rate of 12 percent endangers “prosperity” in Germany, complains Federal Education Minister Bettina Stark-Watzinger. Within the EU, the proportion is only larger in Romania, Spain and Hungary. How is it that Germany is one of … Read more
Florence Pärli, the 33-year-old city councilor, is the FDP’s new candidate for the Bern municipal council elections. Florence Pärli is the FDP’s new candidate for the Bern municipal council elections. – Twitter/@fdp_stadtbern The FDP is taking part in the Bern municipal council elections with Florence Pärli. The 33-year-old city councilor prevailed against co-president Chantal Perriard … Read more
The FDP members voted to stay in the traffic lights. But the result is so close that the traffic light goes into the new year with a mortgage. The FDP party leadership can only be happy about the results of the member survey at first glance. A second look shows that the party is torn … Read more
The FDP asked its members about remaining in the traffic light coalition. The result is just in favor of it. But the FDP will also have to make compromises in 2024. It is a wafer-thin majority with which the FDP is starting the new year: the member survey gives the party leadership support for remaining … Read more
The government wants to increase taxes and duties to plug the hole in the budget. But savings should also be made. Many details are unclear, for example when it comes to car buyers. And the farmer. For four weeks, the leaders of the traffic light coalition fought with each other, session after session, over the … Read more
In the future, daycare providers in Baden-Württemberg will be able to decide for themselves to temporarily relax staffing requirements – i.e. to reduce the number of educators per group. He approved a corresponding bill Parliament on Wednesday with the majority of votes from the Greens, CDU and FDP. The SPD and AfD voted against it. … Read more
Federal Minister of Transport Volker Wissing (FDP) considers the discussion about reforming the debt brake to solve the current budget problems to be a “sham debate”. “There is obviously no majority to change the constitution,” he told the German Press Agency in Mainz. “This is an abstract debate, but we have a concrete problem.” Current: … Read more
It’s easy to scoff at the traffic light coalition at the moment. Who is at fault… The ruling on the application of the debt brake from Karlsruhe came from Olaf Scholz’s government like what economists call an exogenous shock, i.e. an external event that suddenly and unexpectedly changes reality permanently. The Tagesspiegel app Current news, … Read more
Spreitenbach “Suddenly” a high school building: FDP rejects 23 million loan and calls for tax cuts – this is how the other parties react The old Spreitenbach community center is to be converted into a school building and become part of a new school complex. The fact that this will now be much more expensive … Read more