Tag: Federal Cabinet
Nuclear power: Isar 2 goes back online – Bavaria
After maintenance work, the Isar 2 nuclear power plant in Bavaria is scheduled to go back on line this Saturday. “Everything went as planned, a precision landing,” said a spokeswoman…
Closed meeting in Meseberg: The traffic light must deliver – politics
Olaf Scholz and the ministers spent two days deliberating at Schloss Meseberg, the Brandenburg baroque palace completed in 1739 that serves as a guest house for the government. The traffic…
Federal cabinet adopts migration pact – Politics
The government wants to lower the hurdles for a permanent right to stay for only tolerated foreigners. The draft law includes a one-year “opportunity right of residence” in which those…
Diversity: why is diversity so controversial? – Society
When it comes to diversity, people diligently count and compare: Are there enough women, migrants, queers? It never really adds up, you never do justice to everyone. But fighting about…
Cabinet Scholz: And again the East falls down behind – opinion
Last weekend, top German politicians condemned the fascist torchbearers in Grimma, Saxony – and then went back to their day-to-day work, which included the allocation of ministerial offices due to…
Özdemir prevails as Minister of Agriculture
In the internal power struggle with the Greens, parliamentary group leader Hofreiter is losing out. The party left, Steffi Lemke, is to become Minister of the Environment and Anne Spiegel…
Traffic light coalition: a new government must be more diverse
Lists with the names of the members of a future cabinet are circulating in Berlin – but there is no person with an immigration background on them. If that should…
The big move: who will be a minister in the new federal cabinet? – Politics
The traffic light parties are still negotiating who should become what in the new federal government. But lists are already circulating with the names and departments of the soon-to-be ministers.…