At Federal Construction Minister Klara Geywitz said on Monday that three construction funding programs are important for the severely weakening construction industry: “Every funding euro triggers orders in the tradesmen’s books and stimulates domestic demand. It is precisely these impulses that we need now.” Managing Director of the Main Association of the German Construction Industry, … Read more
In Thuringia, too, people went to the cinema more often to see “Barbie”, “Oppenheimer” and the like. Around 1.79 million cinema tickets were sold in the Free State in 2023, according to current information from the Film Funding Authority (FFA). That was 16.1 percent more than the year before. In the year before the corona … Read more
Films could be canceled in several cinemas in the coming days and popcorn bags could remain empty. The reason? The ver.di union is calling for a strike. The service union ver.di has called on employees of the cinema companies CinemaxX and CineStar to go on strike from Thursday as part of the nationwide collective bargaining. … Read more
Erfurt (dpa/th) – 653 teachers were hired on a permanent basis in Thuringia in the first half of the 2023/24 school year. At 166, so-called lateral entrants made up a quarter of the new hires. This corresponds to the previous year’s level, the Ministry of Education said upon request. In addition, 262 educators were hired … Read more
Erfurt (dpa/th) – Thuringia’s development bank should be given more financial leeway to expand its loan programs. The state should now work to ensure that more low-interest loans are available for municipal investments, restructuring the economy and families building and purchasing their own homes, explained the parliamentary managing director of the CDU parliamentary group, Andreas … Read more
Erfurt (dpa/th) – Governing without a majority and a tolerating partner – this is not an ideal solution for Thuringia’s Education Minister Helmut Holter. “One can only hope for Thuringia that there will be a stable majority in 2024 that will also enable good governance,” said the left-wing politician to the German Press Agency in … Read more
Medium-sized companies also welcome the advantages of the European common currency. For the chairman of the Federal Association of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises in Saxony-Anhalt, Oliver Brunn, the euro is a success story because “it has brought stability to the economies in the euro area, price stability in the broadest sense and cooperation between the … Read more
8:06 p.m. | The situation in Windehausen continues to normalize In the Heringer district of Windehausen in the Nordhausen district, the situation continued to normalize before the turn of the year. The mayor of Heringen, Matthias Marquardt, said on Friday that the groundwater was continuing to decline. The cleanup work and damage assessment are underway, … Read more
Comrades make use of SED assets The comrades began to hide these party assets quite early after the fall of the Berlin Wall in order to protect them from state access. Around 490 million East Marks will be distributed as loans to deserving party cadres and officials, a total of 160 borrowers. “The comrades actually … Read more
Whistleblowers should be better protected from harassment Whistleblowers are informants who uncover abuses or crimes within companies or authorities. On the one hand, the Whistleblower Protection Act is intended to enable the identity of a whistleblower to be protected, but at the same time it prohibits retaliation by employers, such as the termination of whistleblowers … Read more