“European warhorse”: Jean-Claude Juncker 2019 Image: Visa The “old European warhorse” Jean-Claude Juncker looks at his own mistakes with regard to Putin in an interview. He also talks about the historical forgetfulness of younger generations and his kisses with Trump. We are receiving alarming news from Slovakia: a social democrat has been elected president who … Read more
According to CSU honorary chairman Edmund Stoiber, “not a natural friend” of the CSU: Wolfgang Schäuble, here on January 20, 2016 in Kreuth Bild: Picture Alliance The relationship between Wolfgang Schäuble and the CSU always had something of a duel. It culminated in April 2021. What really happened in the struggle for power back then? … Read more
AIn view of the upcoming state elections in several eastern German states and the possible strength of the AfD, Federal President Joachim Gauck has called on the CDU to revise its decision to be incompatible with the Left Party. “The AfD can get us into trouble in the East,” he told the newspapers of the … 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
FRiedrich Merz talks about the multicultural society. And about tolerance. If you want to be a multicultural country, then above all religious tolerance is necessary, said the CDU chairman on Monday evening at the party headquarters, the Konrad Adenauer House, in Berlin. Pointing to the “C” in the party name, he says that Christian does … Read more
EIt was 7:28 p.m. on Wednesday evening when Friedrich Merz said the M-word. It will be the only time this evening in the Congress Center in Hanover that the CDU chairman will utter the name of the former Chancellor. It will be the only time that her name will be audibly mentioned in the two … 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
2023-10-20 14:28:13 According to the Israeli military, most of the approximately 200 hostages held by the radical Islamic Palestinian organization Hamas are alive. “The majority of the hostages are alive,” the army said in a statement on Friday, confirming that Hamas did not spare children and the elderly in its major attack almost two weeks … Read more