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

Traffic light peaks praise the draft budget for Offenbach

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

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

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

Traffic light peaks praise the draft budget for Offenbach

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

Pandemic: Most countries waive 2G, 3G and mask requirements

Pandemic: Most countries waive 2G, 3G and mask requirements

Masks in supermarkets, schools, 3G or 2G access rules – the federal legal basis for these corona measures expires at the weekend. Most federal states are also not planning any hotspot rules. Despite their own criticism of the nationwide expiry of most corona measures from the coming weekend, more and more federal states are deciding … Read more

Green Saudi Arabia? Boris Johnson’s big plans

Green Saudi Arabia?  Boris Johnson’s big plans

Boris Johnson used to mock wind power, now the British Prime Minister wants to make his country a global pioneer. His plans are ambitious, but Brexit is making the project more difficult. Boris Johnson is notorious for brilliant announcements, and quite often the plans fizzle out after a short time. But the British Prime Minister, … Read more

Stark-Watzinger: The federal government should have more to say when it comes to education

Stark-Watzinger: The federal government should have more to say when it comes to education

Germany Stark-Watzinger The federal government should have more to say when it comes to education – – Status: 7:14 p.m. | Reading time: 2 minutes Interview with Bettina Stark-Watzinger – – Federal Minister of Education Bettina Stark-Watzinger (FDP) speaks in the WELT conversation. – – – Education Minister Bettina Stark-Watzinger (FDP) provides for the federal … Read more

FDP Vice Wolfgang Kubicki is firmly counting on the traffic light coalition

FDP Vice Wolfgang Kubicki is firmly counting on the traffic light coalition

In 2017, the FDP broke off talks on a Jamaica coalition. It is better not to rule than wrong. According to the deputy federal chairman Kubicki, this will no longer happen. The deputy FDP federal chairman Wolfgang Kubicki is convinced that a traffic light coalition will come about. It takes a lot of educational effort … Read more