Berlin energy expert and former SPD member of parliament Klaus Mindrup calls for more decentralization in the German electricity system. Instead of investing in new gas-fired power plants, he recommends installing large-scale batteries to ensure energy security. In an interview with Table.Briefings, he reports on a fact-finding trip to California, where the operating times of […]
Mr. Flasbarth, your ministry’s budget is facing significant cuts. What does that mean for 2025?That we have less of everything than we need. Of course, this increases the competition for funds. In the health sector, for example, large funds such as the GAVI vaccination fund or the fund against tuberculosis, malaria and AIDS are soon […]
Berlin will have the climate of a southern European city “in an extremely short time”. This is the conclusion of a new study by futurologist Stephan Rammler on behalf of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation and in collaboration with the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research. Under the title “Klimabauhaus Berlin“, Rammler looks at the consequences […]
When Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz delivers a government statement on the upcoming European Council in the German Bundestag on December 13, 2023, something unusual happens: in the first few minutes of his government statement, the Chancellor does not address the challenges the EU is facing, but only one EU member state. Scholz congratulates Donald Tusk […]
More than 60 Saxon companies, municipal utilities and chambers of industry and commerce (IHK) are calling on the future government in Dresden to step up the pace of the energy transition. In an appeal presented to Table.Briefings, they call for “a sufficient market supply of electricity from renewable energies such as wind, photovoltaics and biomass […]
The President of the Federal Environment Agency (UBA), Dirk Messner, is clearly critical of the current tariff structure for the use of electricity grids. “The regions that are modernizing and expanding grids have borne the costs so far“, Messner told Table.Briefings. “And those who – especially in southern Germany – are not tackling this at […]
German foreign and European politicians have expressed their relief at the surprising victory of the left-wing alliance in the parliamentary elections in France. “The worst has been avoided,” says Nils Schmid, foreign policy spokesman for the SPD parliamentary group in the Bundestag. He is of course pleased about the good result of the left-wing alliance. […]
Germans have an ambivalent attitude towards climate action: 71 percent encourage politicians to ensure targets are achieved. At the same time, 49 percent think penalizing climate-damaging behavior with higher prices would be a bad idea. This is the result of a recent study conducted by the opinion research institute Pollytix on behalf of the Friedrich-Ebert […]
The debate over a potential resilience bonus has gained priority within the coalition. Now, the deputy leaders of the factions are negotiating whether this subsidy, initially set at 40 million euros and later up to 300 million euros annually, should be implemented. It is intended to support German solar companies such as Solarwatt and Meyer […]
Shortly before Christmas, the SPD leadership with Lars Klingbeil, Saskia Esken and Kevin Kühnert had a preliminary list proposal for the European elections approved by the SPD state council, the circle of state and district chairmen. Two questions are traditionally controversial: What is the state key for the promising list positions? And will the lead […]