armed forces Naval inspector doesn't find conscription debate unreasonable Conscripts in basic training at a military training area. photo © Peter Steffen/dpa Like private companies and public employers, the Bundeswehr is also plagued by concerns about recruiting young people. Should conscription be reintroduced? In the view of Naval Inspector Jan Christian Kaack, the debate about a possible return to conscription in Germany is not a ghost discussion. He had always been a supporter of conscription and was encouraged in his...
Status: 05.02.2023 04:21 am Work less for the same pay? Crazy idea. There are pilot projects for a four-day week in several countries, and employers in Germany are also trying this out. Left boss Schirdewan takes up the topic. By Kerstin Palzer, ARD Capital Studio The Hotel Oswald in the Bavarian Forest is an oasis. Not only for the hotel guests, but also for the 110 employees. Because there has been a four-day week here for almost three years. If...
Status: 03.02.2023 1:16 p.m A study by the Cochrane research network is said to prove that masks are of little or no use in the fight against the corona virus. But the paper does not allow such a conclusion. By Carla Reveland, ARD-Faktenfinder editor, and Alexander Steininger, tagesschau.de The benefit of mouth and nose protection against the spread of the coronavirus has long been the subject of heated debate. Almost simultaneously with the abolition of the mask requirement on buses...
legalization debate "Purity law" for cannabis - Association demands standards In the future, cannabis plants could be grown according to prescribed standards. photo © Sebastian Kahnert/dpa-Zentralbild/dpa Advocates of cannabis legalization have long drawn a comparison with alcohol consumption. Now a lobby group is proposing to adopt a promotional principle from the breweries. As with beer, according to the ideas of the industry representatives, there should also be a "purity law" for cannabis in the event of legalization. The cannabis industry...
opinion conscription debate The Bundeswehr has other concerns than training half-motivated 19-year-olds Nobody has to wear the Bundeswehr uniform if they don't want to. © Robert Schlesinger / DPA War is raging in Europe and some are thinking aloud about the return of conscription. But the arguments against it are the same twelve years after the end as when it was suspended in 2011. When conscription ended twelve and a half years ago, the last troops were withdrawing from Iraq,...
Status: 01/31/2023 7:47 p.m Defense Minister Pistorius described the abolition of conscription as a mistake. But he has no plans to reintroduce it. FDP leader Lindner rejected any attempt to do so. FDP leader Christian Lindner has spoken out against a discussion about a return to conscription: "For the FDP, conscription is not at all up for debate. It's a ghost discussion." All power must be concentrated on "strengthening the Bundeswehr as a highly professional army," said the Federal Minister...
from Anna ErnestLouis Klamroth has to be used for love stories in the tabloids and angry headlines from the house of Axel Springer. The moderator, 33, who was once acclaimed alongside his own father as a child actor in the "Miracle of Bern", has been the moderator of since the beginning of the year Hard but fair and thus the face of ARD on Monday evening. He also shares his private life with the climate activist Luisa Neubauer from Fridays...
Shortly before the WDR broadcasting council deals with the moderator's relationship with the activist Luisa Neubauer, Louis Klamroth makes the climate "hard but fair" an issue. Can this go well?from Anna ErnestHooray, it's shitstorm again about the public broadcasters. After the criticism of Schlesinger and the RBB, the Springer newspapers in particular are now coming up with a new topic: This time it's Louis Klamroth, 33, who has all the attributes from which you can make crisp, angry headlines when...
The US President rejected calls for the delivery of F16 jets to Ukraine, as had the Chancellor before him. Meanwhile, on his trip to South America, Scholz campaigned unsuccessfully for greater support from Ukraine. Brazil relies on mediation by China. source site-1
Status: 01/31/2023 02:23 am US President Biden does not want to deliver F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine for the time being. French President Macron, on the other hand, does not rule out the delivery of combat aircraft - and names a number of criteria. US President Joe Biden has spoken out against delivering F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine. When asked by journalists whether he was in favor of delivering the fighter jets to Ukraine, Biden replied "no" on Monday evening...
