Tag: Stephen Weil
Germany pace: Scholz disappoints the prime ministers
Construction site The traffic light coalition had agreed to enable faster construction. (Photo: dpa) Berlin The federal and state governments will not agree on a pact to speed up planning…
Savings Bank President Schleweis emphasizes the proximity of Savings Banks and Landesbanken
Helmut Schleweis The head of the German Savings Banks and Giro Association emphasizes that close cooperation with savings banks is crucial for state banks. (Photo: dpa) Hanover Against the background…
Lower Saxony escalates dispute with savings banks about NordLB’s future
NordLB in Hanover The Landesbank’s commission income increased by 28 percent to EUR 46 million. (Photo: dpa) Hanover In the dispute over the future direction of NordLB, which has been…
How the law on heating replacement could be improved
Berlin On Friday, Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) was undeterred with regard to the Building Energy Act (GEG): There may still be one or the other smaller question, “but I think…
“We can learn a lot from the IRA”
Hanover From the point of view of Lower Saxony’s Prime Minister Stephan Weil (SPD), Europe must improve its funding programs for green technologies. “We have to be guided by reality,…
How the party scares voters away with its climate protection plans
Berlin The pictures from Weimar are intended to convey a message: We stick together, we will get through this. At the start of the three-day Green parliamentary group retreat, not…
Scholz announces more continuous arms deliveries to Ukraine
Olaf Scholz In the debate about reforming the Stability Pact, Scholz also warned that competitiveness can only be achieved with stable national budgets. (Photo: dpa) Berlin Chancellor Olaf Scholz has…
Auto industry calls for a rebellion against the Euro 7 emissions standard
Dusseldorf, Berlin, Vienna For Michael Brecht, the new guidelines that the EU wants to set for CO2 emissions from trucks are downright absurd. If it were up to Brussels, according…
The federal states want to have a loud say in the federal government again
Berlin After a good year of government by the traffic light coalition at federal level, the political climate in the federal system has changed. “As with citizen income, we will…
The federal states want to have a loud say in the federal government again
Berlin After a good year of government by the traffic light coalition at federal level, the political climate in the federal system has changed. “As with citizen income, we will…
The federal states want to have a loud say in the federal government again
Berlin After a good year of government by the traffic light coalition at federal level, the political climate in the federal system has changed. “As with citizen income, we will…
Federal Minister of Justice Buschmann: “Countries can introduce compulsory insurance”
Berlin A mandatory insurance against natural hazards for buildings desired by the federal states will not be implemented by the federal government for the time being. Federal Minister of Justice…
“The Deutschlandticket will come now”
49-euro Germany ticket The federal and state governments had agreed to share the cost of the “Germany ticket” with 1.5 billion euros each. However, the federal states, like many transport…
Relief: price brake, 49-euro ticket – results of the country conference
Prime Ministers Conference Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz (2nd from left, SPD), Stephan Weil (l, SPD), Prime Minister of Lower Saxony, and Hendrik Wüst (2nd from right, CDU), Prime Minister of…
Relief: price brake, 49-euro ticket – results of the country conference
Berlin The federal and state governments are largely in agreement on how they want to relieve consumers and companies in the face of high energy prices and inflation. This emerges…
Price brakes, refugee aid, 49 euro ticket – the federal and state governments largely agree on relief
Berlin The federal and state governments are largely in agreement on how they want to relieve consumers and companies in the face of high energy prices and inflation. This emerges…
FDP initiative triggers new debate about gas production
Test drilling on Usedom Fracking is frowned upon in many places in Germany. (Photo: IMAGO/Panthermedia) Berlin A debate has broken out in the traffic light coalition about the use of…
More money for the countries? New debate ensues
Christian Lindner and Olaf Scholz According to information from the Handelsblatt, the finance minister strictly rejects a renewed suspension of the debt brake. (Photo: Reuters) Berlin Confusion about the debt…
More money for the countries? New debate ensues
Christian Lindner and Olaf Scholz According to information from the Handelsblatt, the finance minister strictly rejects a renewed suspension of the debt brake. (Photo: Reuters) Berlin Confusion about the debt…
Vladimir Putin’s missiles are powerful, but a crime
While German intellectuals are currently discussing whether the men in the West are becoming “real men” again through the glorification of the Ukrainian war violence in their sense of themselves…