Tag: CSU
EU feels confirmed by Facebook whistleblower
The focus is primarily on Facebook. It is all the more helpful for the legislator that Frances Haugen, a former manager of the social media group, is involved in the…
Washington and the Strategic Oil Reserve – Handelsblatt Morning Briefing
the persistently high oil price gives the United States the idea of a rare self-defense measure. The Washington government is discussing tapping into the country’s strategic oil reserve. The depots…
An opportunity for the FDP – and a great risk
FDP boss Christian Lindner went into the election campaign with the promise of tax relief. (Photo: dpa) The FDP and the Greens won the Nobel Prize for Political Chemistry. It…
Markus Söder ends Armin Laschet’s Jamaica dream
Berlin Armin Laschet stood in front of the microphones for barely a minute, visibly exhausted, to make his statement to Berlin as the CDU leader in Düsseldorf. There, the FDP…
Ministry of Digital: Lots of budget, flat hierarchies
Berlin A good two thirds of those eligible to vote would like a strong, dedicated digital ministry. Above all, this is intended to reduce the enormous deficits in the digital…
The blonde revolution against Facebook – Handelsblatt Morning Briefing
the world now knows the face of Frances Haugen. A woman who now reported to the US Senate about her experiences in the data company Facebook, a power of monopoly…
Explorations by the Union and the Greens: These conflicts are crucial
Exploratory talks Robert Habeck (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen), speaks next to Armin Laschet (CDU), Annalena Baerbock (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen), and Markus Söder (CSU) at a press conference…
Lash against your own party
Markus Söder, Armin Laschet Every day from somewhere a Union member aims with a point at the incumbent CDU leader. (Photo: Reuters) If you still needed proof that morality is…
Exploratory talk at “Hart aber fair” – criticism of Laschet dismantling – politics
In the election campaign, the candidate spoke to the SPD and the others did not. Now everyone is talking, just not the candidate. In “hard but fair”, Frank Plasberg asks:…
Traffic lights or Jamaica – it’s the turn of the bigger parties
Berlin One week after the general election, the struggle for a new government alliance is in full swing. On Sunday, the SPD of Chancellor candidate Olaf Scholz met individually with…
For Armin Laschet it is now all or nothing – a comment
CDU chief Armin Laschet The CDU chief prepared the explorations with the FDP and the Greens in the party headquarters on Saturday. (Photo: dpa) The hope for the Chancellery is…
Who brings the right structure to the coalition negotiations
Coalition negotiations after federal elections are an Eldorado for negotiation and game theorists. The more complex and apparently inscrutable, the more interesting. The negotiations in the 2017 election year were…
The fear of the traffic light republic is going on
Berlin The Union is preparing for its exploratory talks. The CDU explorers met on this Saturday afternoon. Tomorrow after the celebrations for German unity, the CDU and CSU will vote.…
The deputy editor-in-chief’s weekly review
Good morning everyone, the first week after the election is almost behind us. It will probably take a few more weeks before the new government is finally in place. Despite…
This is how the exploratory talks went on Friday
Berlin Twenty minutes later than announced, the party leaders appeared in front of the camera – and were gone ten minutes later. The Greens bosses Annalena Baerbock and Robert Habeck…
Speed limit on motorways: FDP against speed limit
Speed limit 130 While the Greens and the SPD want to introduce speed limits on motorways, the Liberals reject it. (Photo: dpa) Berlin Transport politicians of the FDP reject a…
How the fear of inflation works – Handelsblatt Morning Briefing
After years of inciting inflation, which amounted to chants of the rain conjuring in extreme drought, suddenly too many of the once coveted percentage points are now to be registered.…
Conservatism is in crisis
Angela Merkel in the Federal Chancellery The Chancellor is leaving – a turning point that has been massively intensified by the crisis of conservatism. (Photo: dpa) The general election produced…
Traffic light or Jamaica? Coalition poker starts on the weekend
Berlin The new era began for the CDU around 13 minutes later than planned. “The party chairmen of the CDU and CSU, Armin Laschet and Markus Söder, have made an…
Laschet’s election debacle costs CDU digital competence
The CDU / CSU parliamentary group has shrunk from 245 to 196 seats. Many specialist politicians are no longer there in the new Bundestag. The Union’s digital experts were hit…