The Human Rights Committee of the Federal Parliament plans to visit Taiwan at the end of October. The trip, which also includes visits to Japan and Hong Kong, was planned ahead of a visit by US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. According to the German News Agency (dpa), the visit will take place from October 22 […]
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The ‘war and crisis chancellor’ in the Bundestag
In the last regular session of the Plenary before the recess, Olaf Solz answered questions from MPs about Ukraine, Russia and the deep energy crisis. Under normal circumstances it would be a restful plenary session of the German parliament, the last before the Bundestag’s two-month summer recess. However, the session that started today and will […]
Germany: Bold raises for MPs
The compensation of parliamentarians in Germany will increase by approximately 300 euros from July 1st. The chancellor’s salary exceeds, for the first time, 30,000 euros per month. A brave increase of 300 euros a month awaits the members of the “Bundestag”, the German Federal Parliament, from July 1st. Already in April, the Speaker of the […]
Germany: Bundestag approves draft law authorizing imposition or expropriation of energy infrastructure
The German lower house of parliament on Thursday approved a new version of a bill aimed at securing the country’s energy supply, which allows the government to proceed with the expropriation or expropriation of critical energy infrastructure and resources if deemed necessary in an emergency. Europe’s largest economy seeks protection against Russia threatens to shut […]
Germany: The proposal for compulsory vaccination of people over 60 did not pass the Bundestag
The proposal for compulsory vaccination against Covid-19 in people over the age of 60 has not recently garnered the required majority in the Federal Parliament. The proposal was voted in favor by 296 deputies, while 378 voted against and nine deputies abstained. The proposal was backed mainly by lawmakers from the ruling coalition parties (SPD, […]
Germany: Lifting most pandemic measures despite rising cases
Despite the daily negative records in the number of new cases, the Federal Parliament today decided to amend the legislation on protection against infections, lifting most of the restrictive measures. Opposition and states have strongly criticized the new rules. The amendments to the legislation were finally voted only by the ruling coalition parties (SPD, Greens, […]
Germany: Reactions to Bundestag decision not to allow debate on Ukraine after Zelensky
The decision of the Federal Parliament not to allow a debate on the war in Ukraine after the speech of the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in a teleconference, but to impose a direct return to the for compulsory vaccination against Covid-19. “I thank President Zelensky for his eloquent speech today in the Bundestag. We see […]
Unwanted neighbors in the … Parliament
New “headache” for the presidency of the Parliament in the post-Merkel era: the Liberals refuse to sit next to the ethno-populists of the “Alternative for Germany” (AfD). In all parliaments the order of the parties reflects and symbolizes the political correlations. In the Federal Parliament that emerged from the 2017 elections, the extreme right seats […]