Tag: Svenja Schulze
This is how the Federal Foreign Office wants to transform it
She was surprised, says the 42-year-old, what the expression “feminist” was for a “trigger word”. What the guidelines aim for should be a matter of course in the 21st century:…
Development aid needs fundamental reform
We have to face an uncomfortable truth – and we have to act. The impact of human activity on our planet poses a threat to livelihoods and threatens to destroy…
Too little impetus for companies
Berlin Federal Development Minister Svenja Schulze (SPD) is certain: “Africa is growing and changing enormously. How it develops will shape the 21st century – and thus also the future of…
This is the traffic light plan against China’s global influence
Annalena Bärbock The Green Party Foreign Secretary on a visit to Ouallam, Niger in April 2022. (Photo: IMAGO/photothek) Brussels A lithium mine in Serbia, a train connection from Burkina Faso…
Development Minister Schulze rules out postponement
Svenja Schulze in the Bundestag The Development Minister refers the FDP to the agreed coalition agreement. (Photo: Reuters) Berlin Development Minister Svenja Schulze (SPD) has ruled out a crisis-related postponement…
Why it pays to invest in gender equality
It has long been recognized that there are social and economic benefits to investing in gender equality or taking action to end violence against women and girls and to make…
So less concrete & asphalt and more meadows protect
Ahr Valley one year after the flood disaster The ruins of a residential building destroyed by the flood not far from the Ahr in Altenburg. (Photo: dpa) Berlin Droughts, heavy…
Grain cultivation: Farmers want to increase production
Grain harvest in Baden-Württemberg Debate about wheat cultivation on ecological priority areas. (Photo: dpa) Berlin The global shortage of wheat, triggered by the Russian war of aggression in Ukraine, is…
Svenja Schulze warns of a global hunger crisis
Berlin Exorbitant food prices, wheat distribution problems, droughts and plagues of locusts – the development policy challenges facing Minister Svenja Schulze (SPD) seem almost impossible to overcome. On a trip…
War in Ukraine exacerbates the hunger crisis: Schulze in Lebanon
In the harbour The destruction that followed the August 2020 explosion is still ubiquitous. (Photo: IMAGO/photothek) Beirut Development Minister Svenja Schulze walks past crushed containers, old car tires and abandoned…
War in Ukraine exacerbates the hunger crisis: Schulze in Lebanon
Beirut Svenja Schulze in a food warehouse. (Photo: IMAGO/photothek) Beirut Development Minister Svenja Schulze walks past crushed containers, old car tires and abandoned sacks. Since a huge explosion devastated the…
These SPD ministers do not cut a happy figure
SPD leadership Chancellor Olaf Scholz can hardly be satisfied with the SPD ministers – neither with Karl Lauterbach (3rd from left) nor with Christine Lambrecht (6th from left). (Photo: imago…
Why the SPD ministers are a squad of disappointments
Berlin It sounded like a really big number. Shortly before the meeting of EU defense ministers on Monday, Christine Lambrecht (SPD) announced that Germany would provide 5,000 soldiers for the…
Millions of refugees expected – The West registers the economic consequences of the war
Dusseldorf One figure leaves no doubt that the attack by Russian President Vladimir Putin will hit the people of Ukraine first and foremost: the European Commission predicted this Monday afternoon…
Russland kündigt kurzfristige Waffenruhe an – doch die Kämpfe gehen weiter
Düsseldorf Zwölf Tage nach Beginn der russischen Invasion in die Ukraine verschlimmert sich die Lage Hunderttausender Menschen in den angegriffenen Städten. Die ukrainische Regierung mahnt eine sofortige Evakuierung aus den…
Russia appears to be preparing to storm Kyiv
More attacks These people are leaving the city of Irpin, which is near Kyiv. (Photo: AP) Dusseldorf Twelve days after the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the situation…
Russia appears to be preparing to storm Kyiv
Ukraine conflict Ukrainian soldiers prepare to defend Kyiv. (Photo: dpa) Dusseldorf Twelve days after the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the situation of hundreds of thousands of people…
These are the new and old official cars of the ministers
Dusseldorf A company car has symbolic power. With the entry of Olaf Scholz into the Chancellery, there is a new federal government and with it new official vehicles. The SPD,…
The challenges of the new development minister
Svenja Schulze (SPD) is considered to be one of the winners of the federal election. After all, the 53-year-old, together with Christine Lambrecht (SPD), is one of only two ministers…
These are the cabinet members of the new Ampel coalition
With the SPD, the last of the three traffic light parties presented their cabinet members on Monday – the new federal cabinet is now almost complete. In total, the cabinet…