Students in Texas hold LGBTQ+ flags. Image: AP The Bundestag votes on the Self-Determination Act and the payment card, Chancellor Scholz is traveling to China and Bayer Leverkusen has the dream of the “Triple” in its own hands. DThe most important thing on Friday and weekend: 1st Bundestag decides on self-determination law2. The Chancellor’s balancing … Read more
AIn the end, the public pressure on the Greens was apparently too great. On Friday afternoon, the SPD, Greens and FDP factions announced that they had reached an agreement on the payment card. In the future, asylum seekers will be able to access the majority of the state benefits they are entitled to via a … Read more
DThe billion-dollar growth package with tax relief and reductions in bureaucracy for companies has been approved. The Federal Council approved the so-called Growth Opportunities Act on Friday by a majority after discussions in the Mediation Committee. Finance State Secretary Katja Hessel described the compromise reached as balanced. “It sends the urgent signal that the economy … Read more
DThe Chancellor wanted to “grab Taurus by the horns” right at the start of the government questioning in the Bundestag. But he didn’t become a star in the ring with this number either. Nothing could be elicited from him beyond what Scholz had already said on this topic. The only trick the Chancellor managed was … Read more
EBetter protection of the Federal Constitutional Court from influence by extremists is not an easy undertaking, according to President Stephan Harbarth. The questions on the topic are “anything but trivial,” said Harbarth on Tuesday evening in Karlsruhe. Many models that are currently being discussed “turn out, upon closer inspection, to be much more complex than … Read more
MSeveral federal states want to prevent cannabis legalization from coming into effect on April 1st and postpone it by six months. The North Rhine-Westphalia State Justice Minister Benjamin Lambach (Greens) told the digital media company Table.Media that the time of five weeks between the adoption and entry into force of the law was “not nearly” … Read more
DThe Bundestag voted on Thursday against a motion from the Union parliamentary group that called on the federal government to deliver Taurus cruise missiles to Ukraine. The federal government has so far resisted supplying longer-range weapons. 480 MPs voted against the Union motion, 182 for it. Five politicians abstained. As announced, the FDP defense politician … Read more
2023-10-21 08:47:38 Two weeks after the start of the war between Israel and the radical Islamic Hamas, the first aid deliveries from Egypt have arrived in the Gaza Strip. 20 Egyptian Red Crescent trucks passed the border crossing in Rafah on Saturday, Egyptian television reported and showed corresponding images. An Associated Press reporter also saw … Read more