Month: May 2020
Second wave of the Corona pandemic expected
The director of the EU agency in charge of disease control has warned of a second wave of the Coronavirus pandemic. Andrea Ammon, who heads…
Meat production to move out of Germany?
by Thorsten Koch The meat industry sees emigration tendencies after the federal cabinet has decided to ban sub-contracts for this branch of industrie. Germany’s largest…
Committee against Racism commences work after Hanau Attacks
The German federal government has set up a cabinet committee against racism. After the first meeting of the committee, Federal Interior Minister Horst Seehofer (CSU)…
Maas warns of radicals, Kretschmer criticizes social media
Federal Foreign Minister Maas (SPD) has warned that citizens in Germany should not allow themselves to be captured by radicals at demonstrations. Extremists and anti-Semites…
Bitkom: promoting remote work across the board
by Thorsten Koch According to plans by the Federal Ministry of Labor, there should be a legal right to work in the home office. The…
Lufthansa: state participation, but without too much interference?
Despite the disadvantage that the federal government would then have no blocking minority to block decisions, according to media reports, it would initially like to…
Restrictions for the meat industry from 2021
by Thorsten Koch The federal government has decided regarding the meat industry that there will no longer be sub-contracts and nor temporary employment. The root…
Clean new cars might be promoted
The battered automotive industry may get help from the European Union budget within the rampant Corona crisis. By 2022, an amount of 20 billion Euros…
New standards for intelligence service
by Thorsten Koch Patrick Sensburg (CDU), a member of parliament and security expert, supports the SPD’s demands to appoint a Bundestag Federal Commissioner for intelligence…
Construction tariff partners postpone bargaining
The collective bargaining for around 850,000 employees in the German construction industry has been postponed without result. The next meeting is scheduled for June 4th….
Calls for a ban on prostitution criticised
The Federal Ministry of Family Affairs and the Union parliamentary group in the Bundestag have criticized an initiative by a small group of MPs by…
Mass surveillance abroad by the BND legally inadequate
by Thorsten Koch The surveillance practice by the federal intelligence service Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND), regarding telecommunications by foreigners, violates fundamental rights. This has been decided by…
