Status: 11/28/2022 5:45 p.m On the occasion of the Wadden Sea Conference in Wilhelmshaven, Federal Environment Minister Steffi Lemke (Greens) is pushing for an end to the Dutch gas production plans near Borkum. "It would be best to stop the gas production project," said Lemke in an interview with the "New Osnabrück newspaper" before the Wadden Sea Conference. She referred to plans by the Dutch company One-Dyas to extract gas from a field between the Dutch island of Schiermonnikoog and...
Status: 11/28/2022 4:13 p.m On the occasion of the Wadden Sea Conference in Wilhelmshaven, Federal Environment Minister Steffi Lemke (Greens) is pushing for an end to the Dutch gas production plans near Borkum. "It would be best to stop the gas production project," said Lemke in an interview with the "New Osnabrück newspaper" before the Wadden Sea Conference. She referred to plans by the Dutch company One-Dyas to extract gas from a field between the Dutch island of Schiermonnikoog and...
Status: 10/16/2022 3:56 p.m Hospital closures are threatening in Germany due to rising energy costs. Federal Minister of Health Lauterbach announced help to prevent this. He rejected support based on the watering can principle Report from Berlin but off Federal Health Minister Karl Lauterbach has promised the clinics in Germany targeted support with the high energy costs. "The hospitals are in a very special situation. If we don't react quickly and really drastically, there will be closures," he said Report...
EU budget Hungary wants to avert threatened EU funding cuts Because of corruption and other violations of the rule of law in Hungary, the European Commission has proposed cutting payments to the country. photo © Aleksander Kalka/Zuma Press/dpa The EU Commission proposed on Sunday to cut payments from the EU budget to Hungary because of corruption and other violations of the rule of law. But the country is trying to fight back. The Hungarian government has tabled a first law...
The first major strike in the construction industry in 20 years was very close. "Those were the most difficult and lengthy negotiations I've had so far," says Robert Feiger, who has been head of the IG Bau trade union since 2013. After 70 hours of marathon sessions, there is now a compromise: By 2024, construction workers in the west will receive 6.2 percent more wages and one-off payments. For the first time, they are paid extensively for long journeys to...
