We would see what we would see. For months, the executives of La France insoumise (LFI) have been claiming that parliamentary obstruction (the fact of slowing down a debate in the hemicycle by all possible regulatory means) was a perfectly legitimate means of action, and especially on the major issue of pension reform. In October, Mathilde Panot, the president of the LFI parliamentary group in the National Assembly, announced the prospect of 1,000 amendments per deputies of her group, or...
Svenja Schulze has a sunny disposition, which doesn't change when she talks about less sunny topics. The Development Minister (SPD) is in her ministry late Tuesday morning and is demonstratively in a good mood. She invited to present the federal government's new "Africa strategy". It's a complicated relationship between Europe and Africa, for many reasons. The minister addresses one thing straight away: the phase at the beginning of the pandemic, when the first vaccines were developed. "What did the rich...
Boris Pistorius becomes the new defense minister: RTL political chief Nikolaus Blome argues with journalist Jakob Augstein about German strategy in Ukraine. Boris Pistorius becomes the new defense minister: RTL political chief Nikolaus Blome argues with journalist Jakob Augstein about German strategy in Ukraine. source site-3
According to Defense Minister-designate Boris Pistorius, Germany is "indirectly" involved in the war in Ukraine. "The Ministry of Defense is a major challenge even in civilian, in peacetime, and in times when the Federal Republic of Germany is involved in a war, indirectly, again especially," said the SPD politician on Tuesday in Hanover, referring to his future task. "And that's why I'm of course very aware of the responsibility and the great importance of this task," he emphasized. "The Bundeswehr...
Health restrictions and the real estate crisis have crushed Chinese growth. China experienced one of its weakest growth in four decades in 2022, according to official figures released on Tuesday. The Asian giant has followed for nearly three years a strict health policy called "zero Covid", which has allowed the population to be largely protected from Covid-19.These draconian measures, which were based on confinements as soon as positive cases were discovered, travel restrictions and generalized screening tests, have seriously disrupted...
This is a new “first” for Marine Le Pen and her colleagues at the Palais Bourbon. The National Rally will present its niche in the hemicycle next Thursday. This system allows, once a month, a parliamentary group to defend its own bills to the rest of the national representation. For several weeks, the party has therefore been thinking about how best to approach this January 12 and derive maximum political benefits from it. RN deputies want to take advantage of...
analysis Status: 01/12/2023 08:07 a.m The traffic light project for a cross-departmental foreign and security policy is faltering. But many want to have a say in the "national security strategy" - including the federal states. A meeting should now smooth the waves. By Michael Stempfle, ARD Capital Studio It should have been the big stage: the federal government wanted to present its project for a "national security strategy" at the Munich Security Conference in mid-February. In other words, where the...
One thing is certain: they are all against it. The parties that form the New People's Ecologist and Social Union (Nupes) are up against the pension reform, which should gradually raise the legal retirement age to 64 or 65 years. From all sides, we underline the injustice of a reform that the left does not consider absolutely necessary, according to its reading of the forecasts of the Pensions Orientation Council (COR). “It is a reform to break the poorest, once...
Status: 04.01.2023 03:23 How to deal with the corona wave in China? The voices calling for a Europe-wide test requirement upon entry are increasing. It is quite possible that the EU will make a corresponding decision today. By Stephan Ueberbach, ARD Studio Brussels. This time, the European Union wants to avoid a patchwork quilt like at the beginning of the corona pandemic if possible. At that time, many member states had closed their borders without consultation, with sometimes chaotic consequences...
A meeting of top political officials is scheduled for Thursday in Berlin. The traffic light alliance wants to defuse a conflict that is not good for Germany's reputation in the world: Representatives of Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD), Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock (Greens) and Finance Minister Christian Lindner (FDP) are to draft the national security strategy agreed in the coalition agreement consolidate - that this then goes through the cabinet as planned before the Munich Security Conference on the third weekend...
