The German Social Democratic SPD can continue with Angela Merkel. The majority of the party members who have cast their vote gave the green light to a new coalition government with the Christian Democratic CDU / CSU. German media report this just before the official announcement by the SPD.
The SPD will let you know on Sunday whether the party wants to continue with Angela Merkel. About 464,000 members of the German Social Democratic SPD were able to speak by letter about the intention of the party leadership to re-enter into a government coalition with the Christian Democrats led by Chancellor Merkel. She has been with the SPD from 2005 to 2009 and since 2013. Her second cabinet was with the right-liberal FDP.
Around 120 employees of the German Social Democratic Party SPD are preparing for a long night. They count the votes of party members who have spoken by letter about a new coalition with their party and the Christian Democrats of Angela Merkel.
In two important speeches- of the British Prime Minister May and of our own Prime Minister Rutte- it has once again been made clear that Brexit has turned all relations in Europe upside down. Rutte unfolded his vision for Europe yesterday afternoon in a speech in Berlin. He knows that the British departure from the EU is looking more to the Netherlands. The Brexit was hardly mentioned, but his shadow was everywhere.
In the course of next year, it should also be possible to send an app on the moon. Vodafone, Nokia and car company Audi will work together to make moon-wide 4G coverage possible. This should make it possible to stream HD video to the earth.
The CDU has approved the coalition agreement with the SPD by a large majority. On the party day in Berlin, only 27 of the nearly one thousand delegates voted against the formation of a new big coalition. Whether or not there is now only depends on the Social Democrats. Members of the SPD can currently express their preference. The results will be announced on 4 March. The Bavarian Christian Democrats of the CSU had already given the green light.
The new airport in Berlin is now expected to cost almost 7.3 billion euros. Berlin Brandenburg Airport (BER in the IATA abbreviation) is still 770 million more expensive than estimated, a spokesman said on Friday. The increase was to be expected because the opening, originally foreseen in 2011, had already been postponed to 2020 by two years in December.
The Berlin investigation has not been able to investigate more than 55,000 cases last year due to a shortage of people and equipment. The figure is from the LKA (Landeskriminalamt) that must fight serious crime.
It took a while, but yesterday Angela Merkel finally made it clear who her successor should be. It has become Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, because of her long, difficult-to-pronounce name by the Berlin journaille abbreviated to 'AKK'.
Chancellor Angela Merkel wants the popular Prime Minister of Saarland, Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, to come to Berlin and send her CDU (Christian Democratic Union) as Secretary General of the party. Merkel suddenly put Kramp-Karrenbauer forward on Monday, reported German media.
The German-Turkish correspondent Deniz Yücel will soon be released from Turkish captivity. That is what foreign spokesman Niels Annen thinks of the Social Democratic SPD. German Chancellor Angela Merkel meets Thursday with Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim in Berlin.
Packed Bavarian beer halls, heavy stuff and of course trees with bretzels on wooden tables. In addition, a crowd of cheerfully drunken Germans, fat men in Lederhose, blond women in Dirndl, plus a political leader who publicly ridicules the competition. For example, an average Ash Wednesday runs with our eastern neighbors.
Free by bus, tram or train in Germany. And no more controllers. That remarkable proposal came yesterday from the sleeve of Chancellor Merkel's outgoing cabinet in Berlin. For example, the strong air pollution in the cities could be tackled.
SPD leader Martin Schulz stops with immediate effect as party chairman. He said that in Berlin on Tuesday evening.
In a video message, the German Chancellor Angela Merkel pointed out the historic debt that Germany has to the Holocaust. 'As Germans, we are responsible for what happened during the Holocaust, the Shoah, in National Socialism.'
Again, a detainee escaped from a prison in Berlin. This time the punished put the guarding staff on the wrong track by making toilet paper, clothes, cloths and a cap a doll so that it seemed like he was in bed. It is the tenth detainee in six weeks that escapes from an institution in Berlin.
The representatives of CDU, CSU and SPD have once again not come true in the negotiations on the formation of a new government. Nevertheless, all parties showed optimism.
Today, Monday 5 February 2018, the Berlin Wall was demolished as long as the wall stood: 10,316 days. That historical fact is the reason for the Berliner Zeitung to fill the front page completely with 'Die Mauer'. '10.316 days one city ', headlines the newspaper.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) still expects difficult negotiations with the SPD and CSU before reaching agreement on a new coalition agreement.
North Korea uses its embassy in Berlin to purchase high-quality technical material for its rocket and atomic program. The boss of the German internal security service said this to the broadcaster NDR.
The German police on Wednesday in several states invades during an action against a gang of people smugglers. The police attacked at addresses in Berlin, Saxony, Bremen and North Rhine-Westphalia, according to German media.
In fact, the highest drivers of the largest car manufacturers in Germany should have known better. Experiments with gasses and people in confined spaces, that's what they do not like in the Federal Republic, and certainly not abroad.
Arkadi Waispapir, known as the last survivor of the prison revolt in the Nazi death camp Sobibor, has died in Ukraine. The Holocaust Memorial Foundation in Berlin said Monday that Waispapir died in Kiev on 11 January. He was 96 years old.
For nine days he was alone in a small hut, but in the end a 44-year-old winter sportsman from Berlin was saved from an Austrian mountain. The man had gone up the mountain on Monday, January 15, but was surprised by a blizzard. Then he could not get off, because he feared avalanches.
A man who was abducted from Berlin to Vietnam according to Germany was sentenced to life imprisonment there. The lawyer of 52-year-old Trinh Xuan Thanh complained that there were serious abuses in the process.
The negotiations on a coalition in Germany will enter a new round on Monday evening. Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU), CSU leader Horst Seehofer and SPD leader Martin Schulz will meet in Berlin, as was announced a few hours after SPD delegates had voted in favor of the negotiations.
No more tickets to buy but with your shoes you pay for your metro ride or tram ride. This is possible in Berlin through a collaboration with the transport company BVG and Adidas. Due to the 90th anniversary of BVG, a unique sneaker has been put on the market in which an annual subscription for public transport has been processed.
The German judiciary has done raids on alleged Iranian spies in several places in the country. There were house searches at addresses in Berlin, Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria and North Rhine-Westphalia, among others.
The first major obstacle on the way to a German center government was taken. After another Merkelian meeting marathon of about twenty-four hours yesterday morning white smoke rose at the Willy Brandt-Haus in Berlin. The presidents of the Christian parties CDU and CSU, plus the left-wing host SPD, were delighted. But the Social Democrats can still throw a spanner in the works.
The German Christian Democrats and Social Democrats are expected to complete their exploratory talks in Berlin on Thursday. Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) predicted that it will be a 'tough day'. She acknowledged that 'people expect us to find solutions.'
