Cabinet decides to allow refugees to start working earlier
The Federal Cabinet wants to enable refugees to start work earlier in the future. Smugglers will soon face harsher penalties. The Federal Cabinet has decided to make it easier for refugees to take up work and to impose harsher penalties on smugglers. According to Wednesday’s decision, asylum seekers will be allowed to work in reception […]
Chancellor Olaf Scholz needs new ministers
Good morning dear reader, Left hook, headbutt, nose poke: For months, people from the Greens and the FDP hit each other while their boss watched from his chancellery sign. They beat themselves up like the hot-tempered fishmonger Rental nothing and the hot-tempered blacksmith Automatix in the Asterix comics, and now they have the salad: In […]
Klara Geywitz wants to make controversial law “simpler”.
After months of discussions, the heating law was passed at the beginning of September. Now Federal Construction Minister Geywitz wants to change it again. Federal Construction Minister Klara Geywitz (SPD) has announced that she wants to revise the heating law that has just been passed. The law could be made “simpler,” “with less detailed control […]
Construction Minister Klara Geywitz expresses doubts about her own law
The Construction Minister, together with Economics Minister Robert Habeck, played a leading role in developing the controversial requirements. However, she doesn’t seem to be completely satisfied with the law. Federal Construction Minister Klara Geywitz (SPD) has publicly criticized the Building Energy Act. The law has been intensively discussed on heating issues, but when it comes […]
Heat, fires, floods: the federal government must act!
The climate crisis is escalating. The summer of 2023 will thus become a historic political opportunity. The federal government must use them. Things are getting hot on earth right now: heat waves are causing temperatures in a number of countries to reach the limits of what is humanly tolerable. Fires set forests ablaze. Elsewhere, heavy […]
Wissing or Heil – who drives the most polluting
Devastating verdict for the company cars of top German politicians: almost all federal ministers drive cars that emit more CO2 than the EU envisages. At the top of the dirt rankings are two country chiefs. Bad climate testimony for the federal government: More than 80 percent of German politicians drive company cars that emit too […]
Wissing, Metz, Heil – who drives the most polluting
Devastating verdict for the company cars of top German politicians: almost all federal ministers drive cars that emit more CO2 than permitted. At the top of the dirt rankings are two country heads. Bad climate testimony for the federal government: More than 80 percent of German politicians drive company cars that emit too much CO2. […]
What does it mean for renters? “So far they’ve been looking in the tube”
What does the heating law mean for tenants? The head of the tenants’ association complains that the traffic lights have paid too little attention to this. And especially criticizes a new regulation sharply. In Germany there has been a debate about heating for weeks. Is the heat pump really the measure of all things? And […]
Opposition criticizes heating law as “law for the bin”: debate in the Bundestag
Bundestag debate on the heating law “A Law for the Bin” Updated on 06/15/2023 – 14:32Reading time: 2 min. Heated debate in the Bundestag: Bas calls for order. (What: t-online) After a long back and forth in the traffic light, the Bundestag has now discussed the controversial heating law for the first time. The opposition […]
Opposition criticizes heating law as “law for the bin”
After a long back and forth in the traffic light, the Bundestag has now discussed the controversial heating law for the first time. The opposition was not stingy with criticism. There have been intensive discussions in the Bundestag about the planned building energy law, the so-called heating law. Representatives of the opposition accused the traffic […]
