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Klingbeil: “super rich” should continue to pay solidarity surcharge

The general secretary of the SPD, Lars Klingbeil, has spoken out against abolishing the solidarity surcharge for all taxpayers from July 1st. “For the top…

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Healthy sideways movement in house prices

by Thorsten Koch The house price index EPX shows an growing trend. In April, prices for condominiums and single-family houses rose by 0.7 percent compared…

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Extremism: Högl for structural measures

by Thorsten Koch The recently elected Military Commissioner of the Bundestag, Eva Högl, wants to campaign more strongly against right-wing extremism in the Bundeswehr. In…

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Calls to engage against right-wing extremism, racism and anti-Semitism

by Thorsten Koch The number of politically motivated crimes has increased in Germany in 2019, according to the Federal Ministry of the Interior’s annual report….

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Increase in the number of deportations of Islamists

The number of deportations of Islamist perpetrators from Germany has increased significantly over the past three and a half years. After the terrorist attack on…

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RKI: lower level of new infections

Since there have been surveys concerning the number of cases of Corona infections, over 179,300 people have contracted the lung disease in Germany. Most of…

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Travel industry criticizes continued travel warning

The travel industry has described the continued global travel warning as an “absolutely wrong signal”. Many people wanted to visit friends and relatives again, or…

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Bundestag extends continued payment of wages, supports dining

Continued wages for parents will be paid for up to 10 weeks instead of up to 6 weeks, the German Bundestag has decided. Single parents…

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Economic output is forecast to decline sharply

Economic output in Germany is expected to decrease by 6.6 percent this year, the Ifo Institute announced in an updated forecast. Economic output fell by…

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Feld criticizes plans to assume municipal debt

Lars Feld, the chairman of the expert panel on business practices, has rejected plans to assume local municipal debts. The Federal Government should not undertake…

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