German Finance Minister Christian Lindner wants to streamline the Supply Chain Act and reduce bureaucracy. "The Supply Chain Act, which is extremely burdensome in practice, must be reduced and streamlined," Lindner said. "The law does little for people in emerging countries, but is a very expensive vote of no confidence in the economy," said the FDP politician in the "Table.Today" podcast from media company Table.Media. Private auditors could take on the task of checking supply chains, instead o
Protesting farmers booed and jeered German Finance Minister Christian Lindner at a large demonstration in central Berlin on Monday. Lindner took to the podium to address the angry farmers, who are protesting government proposals to cut agricultural diesel fuel subsidies, but was shouted down by the crowd. He was only able to begin his speech after Joachim Rukwied, the leader of a major agricultural lobby group, appealed to the crowd. The assembled farmers nevertheless continued to accompany his
a lot of feeling, a lot of focus on this entire trip, and it s about to wind down, that at least he now know that the arab leaders are on the record committing to do the normalization that was very much in play before october 7th and that once the war ends, there s still the possibility for a regional peace with arab recognition of israel. richard. it is almost like he was trying to address the israeli people directly because secretary blinken must know that this government does not want a two-state solution, that this government has said publicly it doesn t want a two-state solution. that it doesn t want to dismantle the settlements or pay the palestinian authority because there are the settler movement is part and parcel of the government, the minister of finance who doesn t want to pay the salaries and the taxes to the palestinian authority, comes from that movement himself.
German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser is warning against complacency in the wake of a media report detailing a meeting between members of the nationalist Alternative for Germany (AfD) party and a far-right group advocating for immigrant repatriation. The populist party has traditionally been on the fringes of German politics, but recent polls have shown a surge of support for the AfD, especially in the former communist eastern regions of Germany where observers say it could even win state electi