(GermanPolicy.com) – The Working Group of Social Democratic Women – an official party branch of the SPD – calls for a woman to be elected to the post of general secretary if the incumbent, Lars Klingbeil, should run for co-chair of the SPD. Parity starts…

(GermanPolicy.com) – The SPD executive committee wants to make a preliminary decision this Monday for the dual leadership of the party chairmanship, according to a news agency report. Party chairwoman Saskia Esken plans on deciding on a second candidacy by then. Meanwhile, SPD General Secretary…

(GermanPolicy.com) – The chair of the Greens parliamentary group in the German Bundestag, Katrin Göring-Eckardt, has called for action against the “rapidly worsening Corona situation.” In view of the “dramatic” development, one must “act urgently,” she said, according to media reports. “We need clear, binding…

(GermanPolicy.com) – The head of the FDP, Christian Lindner, and FDP general secretary Volker Wissing have spoken out in favor of reviving the citizen tests. “In view of the developments, the decision of the CDU-led Federal Government to end free citizen tests was apparently premature,”…

(GermanPo(GermanPolicy.com) – After demonstrations by opponents of the German Corona rules in Leipzig, police has initiated more than 600 administrative offense proceedings as well as 48 criminal cases. A police spokesman announced, that there will be investigations on the grounds of of insult, assault, assault…

(GermanPolicy.com) – After a knife attack had occurred in an ICE express train, the CDU-CSU has demanded that security policy be given more weight in German politics. “It is clear that it will be a great challenge for our security institutions in the future to…

(GermanPolicy.com) – At the beginning of the World Climate Conference in Glasgow, Chancellor Angela Merkel advocated in favor of the concept of CO2 pricing. Steps by the states alone will not suffice, she said, however the industry can get to climate neutrality through carbon pricing….

(GermanPolicy.com) – The co-chair of the SPD, Saskia Esken, would like to run again for the party office she has been holding. It is under discussion that SPD general secretary Klingbeil take the place of co-chairman from Norbert Walter-Borjans. Esken said the SPD should be…

(GermanPolicy.com) – The Greens have expressed dissatisfaction with the coalition negotiations leading to the formation of a new Federal Government. The Greens’ Federal Managing Director Michael Kellner commented on the faltering talks with the words: “We are currently seeing too little progress in terms of…

(GermanPolicy.com) – FDP chairman Christian Lindner is against increases in net borrowing as part of the coming Federal Budget beyond 100 billion Euros. The funds for 2022 are already adequate, Lindner emphasized. It had previously been publicly speculated that the Federal Government’s energy and climate…

(GermanPolicy.com) – Norbert Walter-Borjans, the outgoing co-chairman of the SPD, has publicly contradicted the FDP. It is impossible to relieve middle incomes without taxing higher earners to a higher degree, he said. Without a contribution from the “top earners,” people central to the country will…

(GermanPolicy.com) – The outgoing CDU federal chairman Armin Laschet has announced the decision of the federal executive committee that his successor should be determined by the party members. Ballot papers should be sent out by the beginning of December, but online voting will also be…

(GermanPolicy.com) – At a conference of the Federal and State Governments in Lindau, health ministers agreed on a uniform procedure with regard to booster vaccinations against the Coronavirus. Federal Health Minister Jens Spahn (CDU) announced that he agreed with his colleagues as well as medical…

(GermanPolicy.com) – Federal Health Minister Jens Spahn (CDU) would like a summit between representatives of the Federal Government and the Federal States to coordinate booster vaccinations against Covid-19. To break the fourth Covid-19 wave, booster vaccinations are essential, Spahn said. The vaccinations carried out by…

(GermanPolicy.com) – FDP Secretary General Wissing (FDP) has described the entry into a share-linked pension scheme as announced by the traffic light parties – SPD, Greens and FDP – as the right step. Without capital formation on the stock market, tax grants and contributions would…

(GermanPolicy.com) – According to CSU chairman Söder, certain VAT rates should be reduced in order to cushion the social disadvantages caused by the currently higher energy prices. A reduction in VAT, as well as on energy and fuel, would be tantamount to relief. In addition,…

(GermanPolicy.com) – Climate researcher Ottmar Edenhofer from the Potsdam Institute has warned that global warming could be far more extreme than previously feared. The emissions increased dramatically from year to year. With higher coal power, one steers to 4 degrees global warming instead of the…

(GermanPolicy.com) – The leader of the SPD parliamentary group in the German Bundestag, Rolf Mützenich, has urged SPD leader Saskia Esken to resign from her post if she becomes a minister in the new Federal Government. Previously, the co-chairman of the SPD, Norbert Walter-Borjans, had…

(GermanPolicy.com) – Chancellor Angela Merkel has expressed her satisfaction with the agreement on minimum taxation for large companies which has been reached at the G20 summit in Rome. The agreement is a clear “signal of fairness in the age of digitization,” said Merkel. With regard…

(GermanPolicy.com) – The chairman of the FDP, Christian Lindner, has criticized the SPD and the Greens after politicians from both parties claimed that small and medium-sized companies cannot be relieved of taxes because the FDP rejected a tax for top earnings. Lindner emphasized that it…

(GermanPolicy.com) – The 326 district chairmen and 27 regional chairmen of the CDU have voted, by a large majority, in favor of a member survey to be held regarding the party chairmanship of the Christian Democrats. In terms of the participation, the approximately 400,000 members…

(GermanPolicy.com) – The newly elected chairman of the CDU-CSU workers’ group in the German Bundestag, Alex Knoerig (CDU), has spoken out in favor of concluding an employment pact with a view to a fair transformation of German industries. All industries should be included in such…

(GermanPolicy.com) – In principle, all citizens are entitled to a booster vaccination against the Coronavirus, the Federal Ministry of Health has confirmed. For certain groups such as people over the age of 60, medical staff or people with an immune deficiency, a booster vaccination is…

by Thorsten KochGermanPolicy.com The SPD’s candidate for Chancellor, Olaf Scholz, does not want to succeed Norbert Walter-Borjans as chairman of the SPD. This was said correspondingly by SPD circles and by Scholz himself. Scholz, dwelling in Rome, said the SPD would in time find consensus…

(GermanPolicy.com) – The chairman of the CSU, Markus Söder, has appealed that the two Union parties adjust to the opposition role. “It must be clear to everyone that we, as a Union family, are facing a profound turning point,” he said on Friday. The ‘traffic…