They know it – but they don’t say it
Good morning dear readers, I would like to take you on a little journey through time this morning. It goes back to the summer of 2022. A time when everyone was worried about how high energy prices could be managed. Horror scenarios haunted the newspapers and from there into conversations at the living room tables […]
Government budget policy: The foundation is crumbling
Good morning dear readers, I would like to take you on a little journey through time this morning. It goes back to the summer of 2022. A time when everyone was worried about how high energy prices could be managed. Horror scenarios haunted the newspapers and from there into conversations at the living room tables […]
Citizens’ money: Söder calls for a general overhaul
Citizens’ money is expected to rise sharply in January. The Union wants to prevent that. And there are also concerns in the traffic light coalition. Bavaria’s Prime Minister Markus Söder (CSU) wants to fundamentally revise citizens’ money through a Federal Council initiative and is also calling for the increase in benefits to be postponed. “The […]
Söder wants a general overhaul of citizens’ money
Citizens’ money is expected to rise sharply in January. The Union wants to prevent that. And there are also concerns in the traffic light coalition. Bavaria’s Prime Minister Markus Söder (CSU) wants to fundamentally revise citizens’ money through a Federal Council initiative and is also calling for the increase in benefits to be postponed. “The […]
Putin will be happy to hear it
In the debate about migration, CDU leader Merz caused outrage with a controversial statement. His formulation has precedents. They can be found far to the right. Every September, Friedrich Merz seems to transform into a kind of Cassandra. The CDU leader then loudly warned of the decline of the welfare state. That was the case […]
Are the Greens to blame for the traffic light dispute?
The Greens have once again blocked the traffic lights, this time on the EU asylum reform. At the end, Scholz made an announcement. The Greens bowed. But was it worth it? Tuesday evening this week. At a party in a Berlin editorial office, journalists and well-known politicians push their way through the hallways: parliamentary group […]
Economic emergency program – FDP criticizes Merz: “slap in the face”
The economy is weakening, politicians are arguing about possible solutions. A move by CDU leader Friedrich Merz has met with criticism from the FDP. The FDP has sharply rejected new demands from CDU leader Friedrich Merz to combat the economic downturn. “Solid and generation-fair public finances have constitutional status,” said FDP General Secretary Bijan Djir-Sarai […]
What is behind the debate?
The traffic light coalition is arguing about cheap electricity for industry. But actually there is more to it than that. It is about the question of how much the state should interfere in the economy in the future. You can make it easy for yourself and tell this story about Robert Habeck and his 30 […]
Traffic light dispute about parental allowance and spouse splitting: “Advance is a mystery”
Will high earners have to forego parental allowance in the future? Nobody is really satisfied with this suggestion in the traffic light. But the alternatives have so far been just as controversial. The traffic light coalition continues to argue about the planned cuts in parental allowance. As expected, a suggestion by SPD chairman Lars Klingbeil […]
Robert Habeck: Anger at the FDP is increasing – the Greens have had enough
The FDP now has fundamental doubts about the heating law. The Greens are slowly but surely getting angry. Robert Habeck is not amused. He is on the stage in the Ministry of Economics on Monday afternoon and actually wants to talk about the industrial electricity price. A winning topic, that’s how he sees it. With […]
