Cem Özdemir's bike tour for his appointment as Federal Minister in Bellevue Palace attracted a lot of attention - with the bike between fat limousines, the certificate clamped on the luggage rack, the helmet. That was not enough for the ZDF "Today Show", she put Özdemir's bicycle helmet on her head when he was sworn in later in the Bundestag: "Now he's exaggerating!" That was funny and became even funnier when the corruption was promptly found to be real by...
The way is clear for the first traffic light coalition at federal level: After the SPD and FDP, the Greens have now also approved the coalition agreement. In a strike vote, around 86 percent of party members voted for the new government cooperation, as the Greens announced. This means that the 177-page contract can be signed on Tuesday, and Olaf Scholz (SPD) will be elected Chancellor on Wednesday.According to the Federal Managing Director of the Greens, Michael Kellner, 71,214 members...
After the SPD and FDP approved, the last hurdle on the way to the traffic light coalition at the federal level has now been cleared. The majority of the Greens members voted for the coalition agreement. Photo series with 17 pictures The formation of the first Traffic light coalition Nothing stands in the way of the SPD, the Greens and the FDP in the federal government. In an original vote, around 86 percent of the around 125,000 Greens members spoke...
They are said to have distributed the posts in all friendship, unlike the ministerial offices. The Greens announced on Thursday who should receive a position as Parliamentary State Secretary in their ministries. Some names are more surprising, others that were considered likely are missing.State minister in the Foreign Office and thus the right hand of Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock is to become her long-term political confidante Katja Keul. The lawyer, who left the Greens for a few years because of...
"So help me God" - it is a voluntary formula that can be spoken at the end of an oath of office. When Olaf Scholz is soon to be sworn in as the next Federal Chancellor in the Bundestag, he will leave this sentence out. Gerhard Schröder, a Protestant, once got along without this formula. Olaf Scholz, however, becomes the first non-denominational Chancellor in the history of the Federal Republic.Scholz has resigned from the Protestant Church, nevertheless, he says, he...
Most recently, Cem Özdemir has really dealt with all sorts of things, but not, just for example, with paludiculture on bog soils or with slatted floors in stables. And if he had anything to do with poultry, it was most likely in the form of cockfights in his own parliamentary group - in which Özdemir, who had been head of the Greens for many years, ultimately prevailed. He becomes Minister of Agriculture.The office may not be the first thing that...
Of course, one can get upset now about alleged migrant quotas, a foreign politician as a peasant minister and the misery of the Greens. Shortly before the green yes to the traffic light government, a real bar fight broke out in the party. Faction leader Toni Hofreiter has fought with ex-party leader Cem Özdemir for the post of agriculture minister and the party left with the realos. The green harmony furniture of the past few years broke. And if so....
The fact that Cem Özdemir becomes Minister of Agriculture and Anton Hofreiter goes away empty-handed is the result of a heated argument. It started with the Greens getting different ministries than expected - and ended with several victims.from Constanze von BullionPolitically and now also personally, they belong in galaxies that are far apart from one another. One, Toni Hofreiter, 51-year-old Upper Bavarian and a doctorate in biology, has been the leader of the Greens in the Bundestag since 2013, a...
Wednesday November 24th 2021 270 billion on the test bench Greens are targeting traffic route plans The currently CSU-led Ministry of Transport could move to the Greens in a traffic light coalition. Because road traffic is primarily responsible for CO2 emissions, the Federal Transport Infrastructure Plan is to be tied up again. The traffic light parties SPD, Greens and FDP want to re-examine the Federal Transport Infrastructure Plan 2030, adopted in 2016, from an ecological point of view and with...
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