After traffic light agreement Habeck considers climate protection measures in the transport sector to be insufficient Federal Minister of Economics Robert Habeck (Bündnis 90/Die Grünen) © Bernd von Jutrczenka / DPA After a long struggle, the traffic light coalition decided on a series of measures to make progress in climate protection, for example. Nevertheless, the Green Economics Minister complains that too little is happening in the transport sector. Economics Minister Robert Habeck has expressed skepticism that the traffic light coalition...
World's lowest birth rate With these controversial measures, South Korea wants to encourage families to have more children Mother, father, child is common in South Korea, the birth rate is 0.84 children per couple. © Zoonar / Imago Images South Korea has the fewest children in the world. The government is trying to reverse the trend, but the proposed measures have been widely criticized and ignore the real problems. For years, South Korea has been sinking billions to reverse a...
New drought alert in sight. On the occasion of World Water Day, Wednesday, the environmental group of the North department sounded the alarm about the hydrological situation: the North experienced one of the driest months of February ever recorded. since the beginning of the measurements in 1959. And the rains of March are far from compensating. As a result, the tension on water resources is likely to become very critical this year, especially in the Lille-Lens-Douai triangle, where the soil...
Status: 03/25/2023 5:19 p.m Almost four years after the enactment of stricter measures against sexual abuse in the Church, the Vatican is expanding the rules: In future, these will also apply to lay people who lead "international associations of believers". The Vatican has extended the reporting requirement for sexual abuse in the Catholic Church to lay people working for Vatican-approved organizations. According to an apostolic exhortation promulgated in the form of a "motu proprio" by Pope Francis, "lay persons who...
When discussing the regulation of unhealthy products, objections are often raised that come from standard industry repertoire. The most common statements - and what to think of them."What the citizen consumes is none of the state's business"At first it sounds plausible: what citizens spend their hard-earned money on is their own affair. But what is overlooked is that what the individual consumes "is already largely the concern of others," says Nason Maani, public health researcher at the University of Edinburgh....
When discussing the regulation of unhealthy products, objections are often raised that come from standard industry repertoire. The most common statements - and what to think of them."What the citizen consumes is none of the state's business"At first it sounds plausible: what citizens spend their hard-earned money on is their own business. But what is overlooked is that what the individual consumes "is already largely the concern of others," says Nason Maani, public health researcher at the University of Edinburgh....
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STORY: Increased security measures in Vienna on Wednesday. The background is warnings of a possible attack in the Austrian capital with a radical Islamic background. "The Directorate of State Security & Intelligence received information that an Islamist-motivated attack is planned in Vienna," the police said on Twitter on Wednesday. As a precautionary measure, "increased surveillance of neuralgic places or objects in Vienna" was ordered. For this purpose, uniformed police forces are visible in public space. "The duration of this increased...
Adaptation to climate change The federal government wants to prevent water shortages with 80 measures - some consider the strategy to be watered down In Germany it was already too dry last summer © Sina Schuldt / DPA The cabinet has adopted a national water strategy. The project is part of a strategy to adapt to climate change. But that's not enough, say associations. In order to secure the future water supply in Germany despite the consequences of climate change,...
It's a topic that divides America between supporters of the freedom to carry and possess firearms and opponents. The Democratic president, however, is trying to limit the circulation of firearms. Joe Biden thus announced a new round of regulatory measures on Tuesday. But their scope will be limited in the absence of a federal law, a very unlikely prospect at the present time.The American president must expose these measures later in the day in Monterey Park (California), a locality bereaved...
