Revolt in the FDP: “This is an attempted suicide”
A membership decision is being made in the FDP about whether to remain in the coalition, and the mood in the party is changing: will the Liberals soon be leaving the government? Until October 17th of this year, Matthias Nölke led a quiet life in Kassel. He used to sit for the FDP in the […]
Budget | Next round in the traffic light household wrestling
The conflict over the 2024 budget has been blocking the alliance of the SPD, Greens and FDP for days. Negotiations about savings and the debt brake continue. The SPD has now set up guard rails. In the traffic light coalition, the difficult search for a way out of the budget crisis is entering the next […]
Revolt against Lindner or stay in the traffic light?
In the FDP, a membership decision is being made about whether to remain in the coalition, the mood in the party is changing: will the Liberals soon leave the government? Until October 17th of this year, Matthias Nölke led a quiet life in Kassel. He used to sit for the FDP in the Bundestag, that […]
The SPD party conference is under bad auspices
The SPD actually wanted to complete its planning for the party conference. But then news broke that the budget talks had failed. Uncertainty is growing among the SPD and the Greens. Kevin Kühnert is late. The SPD announced a hall tour of the Berlin CityCube on Thursday, planned to start at 3:45 p.m. But the […]
Budget 2024 will probably not be passed this year
The Bundestag will no longer pass the budget for 2024 this year. This emerges from an internal SMS to SPD MPs. There is still no agreement in the traffic light coalition’s financial dispute. According to the SPD parliamentary group leadership, the Bundestag will therefore not pass the 2024 budget before the end of the year. […]
A political failure of the first order
Good morning dear reader, you can still register a particularly memorable sentence of a teacher or professor, someone you haven’t been able to get out of your head ever since? Was it because you found it terrible but already suspected that it contained a grain of truth? Just these days I’m thinking about how my […]
Traffic light crisis: An unworthy spectacle
Good morning dear reader, you can still register a particularly memorable sentence of a teacher or professor, someone you haven’t been able to get out of your head ever since? Was it because you found it terrible but already suspected that it contained a grain of truth? Just these days I’m thinking about how my […]
Budget 2024 | Klingbeil: Decision in the budget crisis this year
The traffic light is struggling to find a way out of the budget dilemma. Whether and when they will reach an agreement is anyone’s guess – but time is running out. And what happens next remains unclear. The SPD chairman Lars Klingbeil expects a “political clarification” of the budget crisis this year. Even though it […]
Maischberger takes Klingbeil to task about the budget
The traffic light is in crisis. With “Maischberger” the Chancellor got his fat off. SPD leader Lars Klingbeil rushed to his defense. “Hard words,” said moderator Sandra Maischberger on Wednesday evening after comedian Oliver Kalkofe announced his verdict on Chancellor Olaf Scholz. According to Kalkofe, his communication is even worse than that of former Chancellor […]
Lindner and Buschmann promote dozens of employees in ministries
The FDP’s Justice and Finance Ministries want to promote significantly more employees than other ministries. Liberals see this as a regular occurrence. Although the traffic light coalition is in the middle of a budget crisis, there is a wave of promotions in FDP-led federal ministries shortly before the end of the year. This was reported […]
