Berlin Partial Repeat Election: Dramatic Defeat for SPD, Drop in Voter Turnout, and Overall Electoral District Results

Berlin Partial Repeat Election: Dramatic Defeat for SPD, Drop in Voter Turnout, and Overall Electoral District Results

In the repeat election, the SPD will lose more than a third of its votes compared to 2021. The Greens remain constant. Voter turnout drops significantly. Despite a large lead from the 2021 election, Michael Müller (SPD) can only very narrowly defend his mandate in Berlin Photo: Christoph Soeder/dpa BERLIN taz | A severe defeat … Read more

World Climate Conference, CDU Leader Merz, and Federal Government Policies: Saving the World is a Long Time Coming, but a Dortmund Striker Gives Hope

World Climate Conference, CDU Leader Merz, and Federal Government Policies: Saving the World is a Long Time Coming, but a Dortmund Striker Gives Hope

The results of the World Climate Conference, the policies of the federal government and CDU leader Merz: saving the world is a long time coming. But a Dortmund striker gives hope. Monster tackle: Niklas Süle in his rescue act against Kylian Mbappé Photo: Teresa Kroeger/rhr-foto/imago No, the world wasn’t saved this week either. Nearly. The … Read more

Lindner explains supplementary budget: “We would rather spend money on the future than on interest”

Lindner explains supplementary budget: “We would rather spend money on the future than on interest”

The Bundestag Presidium has scheduled 68 minutes for the debate on the 2023 supplementary budget this Friday morning. In order to pass it, the government factions must again decide on an emergency because Germany will have to take on more debt than planned. The dispute is not just about the budget for the current year. … Read more

That is why the debt brake should also be suspended in 2024 | News from around the world

That is why the debt brake should also be suspended in 2024 |  News from around the world

Not all debts are the same – this is easy to understand in private. A loan to finance a property you use yourself makes sense – as long as the property is not overpriced and the borrower can meet the monthly interest and repayment installments. In this case, debt is a means of building wealth. … Read more

Cuts to Integration, Political Education, and Fake News Initiatives: Threats to Democracy and Social Cohesion

Cuts to Integration, Political Education, and Fake News Initiatives: Threats to Democracy and Social Cohesion

The AfD is strong, and the traffic light wants to save – of all places where cohesion in democracy is at stake. Three examples. Some MPs were certainly also at one of the Unteilbar demos, here in Berlin in June 2020 Photo: Sebastian Wells/Ostkreuz Integration Whether it’s support in the asylum procedure, when arriving in … Read more

Miscarriage: why five women go before the Constitutional Court

Berlin. Like Maria Kountoures in her prime pregnancy she had a miscarriage, her world fell apart. But the then 31-year-old didn’t have much time to mourn. Her doctor fired her due to illness for two weeks, after which she returned to her employer. “I actually would have needed more time to process the miscarriage physically … Read more

Traffic light peaks praise the draft budget for Offenbach

orffenbach ⋅ As expected, the Offenbach traffic light coalition supported the draft budget of the municipal treasurer Martin Wilhelm von der SPD set for the year 2023. Despite the time marked by crisis and uncertainty, the coalition supported by SPD, Verdi and FDP has agreed to stick to important investments for the city without imposing … Read more

Corona in autumn: “Much better tools than coercive measures that some people crave”

Deutschland Corona in autumn “Much better tools than coercion, which some lust after” – – Stand: 24.07.2022 | Reading time: 4 minutes – – – – “I don’t think it’s sensible to blow the panic horn now in summer” – – Health Minister Lauterbach warns of a “catastrophic” corona development if there are no appropriate … Read more

Care reform – parents can hope for hundreds of euros in relief – my money

The traffic light government must regulate the financing of long-term care insurance! The Federal Constitutional Court has decided: Parents must be relieved of the contributions. The more children you have, the less you should pay into the nursing care fund. “The same contribution burden on parents, regardless of the number of children they have, is … Read more

Offenbacher CDU attacks traffic lights sharply

The Offenbach CDU holds the traffic light up to wanting to save on public transport, although there are significant surpluses. Don’t present numbers to cover it up – Offenbach ⋅ The Offenbach CDU has expressed its incomprehension that the coalition of SPD, Greens and FDP is planning massive savings in public transport, although the State … Read more