(GermanPolicy.com) – SPD Chancellor candidate Scholz (SPD) has promised to accelerate the transformation of the economy into a climate-neutral industry after the election of the next Federal Government. Everything will be done to ensure that Germany does not suffer an electricity gap, and to do…

(GermanPolicy.com) – Consumer prices continued to climb in October, the Federal Statistical Office announced. The inflation increased to a total of 4.5 percent, accordingly, after it was seen at 4.1 percent in September. This can be explained by the VAT reductions and the lower costs…

(GermanPolicy.com) – The Federal Chancellor and the members of the Federal Government have received certificates of discharge from Federal President Steinmeier. However, the government will remain in office until a new head of government is elected by the German Bundestag – probably at the beginning…

(GermanPolicy.com) – SPD parliamentary group leader in the Bundestag Mützenich has announced that there should be a uniform transitional regulation with regard to the Corona pandemic by March 20. The ‘epidemic situation of national scope’ is expected to expire despite an increase in the number…

(GermanPolicy.com) – Co-chairman of the Greens Habeck is campaigning for Germany to take out more loans to finance domestic measures in view of climate protection. The public purse is supposed to go into debt in order to enable climate investments. Debt should also be possible…

(GermanPolicy.com) – The Greens co-chairman Habeck is apparently playing with the idea of ​​retiring from his party office. According to an internal rule of the Greens only two out of six federal board members are allowed to hold seats in the Bundestag. In January a…

(GermanPolicy.com) – Leading politicians of the CDU have campaigned for a women’s quota to be quickly introduced in the party. Among them are Minister of Education Karliczek and the Vice-Chairwoman of the CDU, Klöckner. Chancellor Angela Merkel had also advocated more applications from women in…

(GermanPolicy.com) – The German Bundestag has elected Social Democrat Bärbel Bas as the successor to Wolfgang Schäuble (CDU) as the new President of the Bundestag. Bas called for a respectful approach in the Bundestag, as well as a dialogue between politics and citizens. Bas would…

(GermanPolicy.com) – Senior President Schäuble opened the constituent session of the German Bundestag on Tuesday. He advocated electoral reform as the newly elected parliament has a record size of 736 members. The 79-year-old politician is the longest-serving MP.

(GermanPolicy.com) – Chancellor candidate Scholz (SPD) and Greens chairman Habeck see no possibility of achieving tax relief for small and medium incomes. The FDP rejects increases in taxes and duties. Scholz and Habeck said that relief is only possible if taxes on higher income increases….

(GermanPolicy.com) – In the coalition negotiations starting this Wednesday, the Greens want to campaign for the housing benefit, the basic income and the tax-free subsistence level to be increased. These measures are meant to counteract the rise in energy prices. With a higher housing benefit,…

(GermanPolicy.com) – At the beginning of the spring season in the new year, the containment measures against the Corona pandemic are to expire. According to media reports, this is the intention of the SPD, the Greens, and the FDP. First of all, a special federal…