Public purchases that nobody needs are usually a nuisance that is discussed at length in many a committee. Now in Vaterstetten there was also talk about purchases that may never be used - but that's how it should be. It was about civil protection and what the community has to do about it and what equipment they have to get in the hope that it will never be needed.The measures now presented focus on the power outage, explained Mayor Leonhard...
The storming of the Capitol in Washington has just celebrated the second time, and the embarrassing remake, respectively Bolsonaro's copy from Trump's coup attempt, is only a few days ago and refers to the endangerment of democracy in South America, with its coup-tested military. "Civil Wars. Why More and More States Are on the Precipice" by Barbara F. Walter could be the book of the hour. Even if terms like "anocracy" and "factionalism" play a role.The American political scientist Walter...
Great Britain Archaeologists come across finds from the Civil War on the train route Archaeologists have unearthed relics believed to be centuries old during excavations to expand a railway line. photo © -/HS2/PA Media/dpa Archaeologists make an important find in England: On a train track they discover buildings with bullet holes and musket balls. The relics may date from the 1642 Civil War. Archaeologists digging to upgrade a railway line have uncovered relics believed to be centuries-old from the English...
citizen dialogue Father of the killed 14-year-olds in Illerkirchberg speaks The parents of the 14-year-olds who were killed wished that nothing would remain at the scene of the crime. photo © Bernd Weißbrod/dpa At the beginning of December, a 14-year-old was so badly injured in a knife attack in Illerkirchberg that she died in hospital. During a civil dialogue, her father now expressed a specific wish. The father of the 14-year-old who was killed spoke up during a public dialogue...
Unsurprisingly, the public service inter-union called "all public officials to mobilize […] massively” against the pension reform project deemed “unfair and unnecessary” during the day of strikes scheduled for January 19.In a joint press release released Thursday, the public service trade unions - CFDT, CFE-CGC, CGT, FA, FO, FSU, Solidaires, UNSA - "require the government to withdraw its plan to postpone the legal age of departure retirement from 62 to 64 and to increase the contribution period".Request to take into...
From our correspondent in California,Two days, six ballots, and a “House” still without “Speaker”. The civil war that is tearing the Republican Party apart for elect Kevin McCarthy at the perch of the House of Representatives continued on Wednesday, with around twenty elected officials categorically rejecting a candidate yet supported by Donald Trump. Each faction camped on its positions, and the tone rose, until a chaotic suspension of the session in the evening, pending a new vote Thursday at noon...
The pension file continues to inflame the unions. Six days before the presentation of the reform by the government, the first three unions of civil servants - CGT, FO and CFDT - came out frustrated on Wednesday from their last meeting on the subject with the Minister of Public Service Stanislas Guerini.“They (the members of the government) remain on their initial agenda and on what they have decided”, deplored Céline Verzeletti for the CGT, the first union of civil servants,...
From our correspondent in California,Two days, six ballots, and a “House” still without a “Speaker”. The civil war which is tearing the Republican Party apart to elect Kevin McCarthy to the roost of the House of Representatives continued on Wednesday, with around twenty elected officials categorically rejecting a candidate who was nevertheless supported by Donald Trump. Each faction camped on its positions, and the tone rose, until a chaotic suspension of the session in the evening, pending a new vote...
At the helm of the large trial room of the Paris courthouse, Me Frédéric Bibal takes on the case of one of his clients. Psychological victim, "by ricochet", of the Nice attack but who was not in the direct vicinity of the ram truck on the evening of July 14, 2016, the latter sees, like others, her status as a civil party challenged by the National Anti-Terrorist Prosecutor's Office (Pnat). Because she “was not within the chosen perimeter”. “I am...
High fines, confiscation of ships: the right-wing Meloni government in Rome has issued a decree that makes it very difficult for aid organizations to operate in the Mediterranean. The NGOs are outraged.The Italian government has passed a decree that is intended to significantly limit the deployment of civil sea rescuers in the Mediterranean. International aid workers reacted with outrage to the initiative of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni's right-wing government. Among other things, the decree stipulates that the ships of the...
