Intransigence. In a few EU countries, farmers were using neonicotinoid-treated seeds in exceptional circumstances, despite European bans, in particular to protect beets, thanks to local derogations. However, on Thursday, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) ruled on the illegality of these circumventions of the regulations.On Thursday, European justice ruled that EU members cannot "derogate from the regulations expressly aimed at prohibiting the marketing and use of seeds treated with such products", despite a provision of the European...
Despite urgent appeals and warnings from Federal Defense Minister Christine Lambrecht (SPD), the Bundeswehr in Mali is still being prevented from fulfilling its mission by the local authorities. According to information from Süddeutsche Zeitung the Malian side has banned all strikes with the reconnaissance drones used by the Bundeswehr until January 16th. According to the Operations Command near Potsdam, which is responsible for foreign missions, the Heron-Drone last rise on December 23rd. "Since then we have been waiting for the...
Status: 01/03/2023 10:27 am After the attacks on rescue workers on New Year's Eve, calls for no-gun zones became louder. Municipalities can do that. The mayor of Berlin-Neukölln is even calling for a nationwide ban on the sale of fireworks. The municipal associations are expecting more no-fire zones at the turn of the year. The cities had - even before Corona - "made good experiences with fireworks ban zones," said the general manager of the city day, Helmut Dedy, the...
As in many cities, France's victories over England and Morocco in the World Cup were celebrated with wild fireworks in several districts of Rennes. Scenes that the prefect of Ille-et-Vilaine does not want to see happen again on Sunday for the final against Argentina. "To prevent any threat to public security and peace", Emmanuel Berthier has therefore just issued an order prohibiting the sale of flammable or explosive chemicals and the use of fireworks throughout the department from midnight this...
The group was arrested in the 17th arrondissement of the capital during a check. “They clearly wanted to do battle on the Champs” said a police source.A group of 40 people close to the ultra-right, who were preparing to join the Champs-Elysées in Paris after the semi-final of the World Cup won by France against Morocco, were arrested, in particular for wearing a Prohibited weapons, we learned Wednesday evening December 14 from a police source.The group was arrested in the...
STORY: (NOTE: THIS ARTICLE IS WITHOUT SPEAKER TEXT) Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Wednesday in Indonesia: "I think it's good and right that the NATO members gathered here this morning met very quickly and very quickly, that we came together, to talk about the situation and one of the clear understandings that we got there is that now this destruction has to be investigated, the missile targets also have to be investigated and the result of the investigation should be...
In two cases, the Federal Cabinet has prohibited Chinese companies from investing in German companies. Economics Minister Robert Habeck said on Wednesday in Berlin. On the one hand, it is about the sale of a chip production facility from the Dortmund company Elmos to a Chinese investor. According to Habeck, Elmos made this public. The other case is subject to the company's trade secrets, so it cannot go into details. That Handelsblatt had reported that the federal government wanted to...
Hard blow for Louis Boyard. During the debate which had agitated the National Assembly this summer on the good dress to adopt in the hemicycle, the young deputy LFI had proposed to ban costumes "which cost more than one minimum wage", judging them "indecent". Conversely, the right led by Eric Ciotti pointed to a “sloppy” left, an adjective launched by Renaud Muselier, and wanted to make the tie compulsory. The office of the Assembly, meeting this Wednesday on the subject,...
No champagne, popcorn, poncho or raclettes, chocolate donuts, Christmas items for dogs and cats for this new edition of Strasbourg Capitale de Noël. It's not so much the things banned on the Christmas market that have been shaking up social networks in recent hours, as the so-called "subject to conditions" sales: crucifixes, Christmas snowballs, Christmas grog, Christmas donuts, Italian products … The list of what is authorized, prohibited or subject to sale is long, precise and detailed by category. It...
Given the "supply difficulties" of service stations and noting an "overconsumption of fuel" at the pump in recent days, the prefect of the Rhône has issued an order to stop the constitution of personal stocks. Therefore, from Tuesday 7 a.m., it will now be prohibited to buy fuel in jerry cans, cans and any other "manually transportable container".It is a question of “preventing the risk of tensions in the queues” leading to the service stations, he underlines. Last weekend, motorists...
