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BREAKING: In #Germany, the “traffic light” coalition government has reached a breaking point. Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) has dismissed Finance Minister and FDP leader Christian Lindner after the recent crisis summit failed to resolve ongoing disputes. Lindner reportedly suggested early elections for 2025, but no agreement was reached between Scholz, Lindner, and Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck (Greens), despite multiple rounds of negotiations. With Scholz’s decision to remove Lindner, it appears that the coalition may be unraveling. https://lnkd.in/d83iGg53

Are we equipped to deal with disinformation? 🤔 In the wake of the recent European elections, the challenge of disinformation remains critical. Explore insights from the Ö1 European Discussion with markus müller-schinwald and a panel of experts on how we can strengthen our democracies against such threats. Listen to the discussion: https://lnkd.in/d28gh-NC #EFA365 #Disinformation #Democracy #EuropeanForumAlpbach

Interesting post in DeviceMed, following the US election result. Read the story at: https://lnkd.in/e2M5pSh6 SPECTARIS, Jörg Mayer, #MedicaltechDE  

stern-Exklusiv: Lindner confronts coalition with new policy paper (orig.: stern-Exklusiv: Lindner konfrontiert Koalition mit neuem Grundsatzpapier) #WORLDNEWS #Lindner #stern-Exklusiv: #confronts #with #coalition 🗞️🤓👉 https://lnkd.in/dZnqAcfT

Catastrophic polling numbers for German chancellor Olaf Scholz and his ruling coalition party. In a poll conducted by Germany’s second public television channel ZDF, the results were the following: 77% respondents attested Scholz bad leadership competencies (inability to push his agenda through) 65% respondents thinks he is doing a bad job 74% respondents think he should not stand for re-election in 2025 49% of his own party the SPD think he should not stand for re-election 71% respondents think the government (the coalition of SPD/ Greens / FDP) does a bad job You don’t have to be a political scientist to understand that calm, steady and consus-driven Germany is over. #germany #scholz #bundesregierung #polls #zdf #umfrage #durchsetzungsvermoegen #zeitenwende

I am happy to be featured in the Q3 2024 edition of BCA AG. The commentary examines the impact of the upcoming U.S. elections on the current macroeconomic landscape and it explores potential scenarios for the years ahead. The full article can be accessed here: https://lnkd.in/gQ7T6nUN

The citizens of Europe have #voted! And yes, the results are alarming because the rising significance of right-wing parties across almost all EU-countries clearly poses a threat for #democracy in Europe. For the German magazine KOM we contributed exclusive research on the media reach of Germany’s top candidates for the EU and political parties compared to the actual election results. Do they correlate – or do they not? For example, we uncovered that Katarina Barley fails to leave her mark in German media in the run up to the election even though she should have been in focus as the governing party SPD’s top candidate. If you want to read more interesting details and facts about the #EuropeanElections from a media perspective, you can access the article (only available in German) here: https://lnkd.in/egjy_VVE #insights #Europawahl

Eine Analyse der Wahlen in Ostdeutschland: https://lnkd.in/eyTVzT_3 English: An Analysis of the Elections in East Germany: https://lnkd.in/erMq7Cts #niewiederistjetzt #brandenburg #thüringen #sachsen

Will the #CSU& #CDU start their election campaign by accepting votes by Nazis against a #CSU law? The series, "𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐧𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫-𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐋𝐤𝐒𝐆" continues. The upcoming episode could be called "𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐬𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐝𝐥𝐲 𝐛𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬-𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐞𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐞𝐠𝐚𝐥 𝐬𝐞𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐝." - if that episode would not have been played so many times already. Lets take a look at the what happened in previous seasons and episodes and what the future might bring: #2020: The German #NAP evaluation shows that businesses do not implement voluntary standards on BHR, so the coalition of CDU, CSU and SPD starts a legislative procedure; in other news, the EU Council decides that it wants to push for a European Law. #2021: Under the leadership of CSU minister Gerd Müller and SPD`s Hubertus Heil, the coalition propose a law, the LkSG. Several CDU & CSU parliamentarians argue for an economy that puts, in a christian ethics way, humans and their needs at its heart. The law is passed with the votes of CDU, CSU, SPD and the greens. #2022: German companies start investing in cross-functional projects, building BHR expertise, building tools and procedures to fulfill the LkSG. At the same time, the EU starts its legislative procedure for the CSDDD. The CSDDD`s text is based to at least 70% on the LkSG. #2023: The LkSG enters into force, German companies face the task of implementing the new and complex rules. They are unfortunately sometimes advised to take burocratic rick-boxing approaches of compliance that ignore the risk-based approach - leading to the creation of the legend of the mystical bureaucracy monster. #2024: The CSDDD is finally adapted. A lot of attention worldwide and EU-wide turns to German BHR practice, for guidance, for inspiration, for lessons learned from mistakes and successes. And first positive impacts can be seen: labour unions in many countries say they are heard more, exploited truckers in Germany receive remedy, corporate culture starts shifting, burocratic tick-boxing slowly starts to wither and to evolve into risk-based due diligence. All this puts us on a pathway to BHR practice that will be 𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐛𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐞𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬 𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬. #2025 could be many things. It could be a year in which responsible parties of a new government evaluate where LkSG practice was effective and where it was too burocratic. They could use CSDDD and CSRD to make changes in the spirit of the risk-based approach, helping German companies mature their approaches and being a 𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐬𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐄𝐔 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐠𝐥𝐨𝐛𝐚𝐥 𝐁𝐇𝐑 𝐩𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐞. Or it could be the year in which 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐬 𝐯𝐨𝐭𝐞 accept votes by 𝐍𝐚𝐳𝐢𝐬 to destroy investments companies have done to soften the rough edges of the globalized economy and make it more humane. What 2025 do you want?

#politics #economics #sustainability #NobelPrize Bundeskanzler Olaf Scholz @Bundrskanzler says on X (https://lnkd.in/egvW5rjT): “Am Montag treffe ich Spitzenvertreter der Stahlbranche, Betriebsräte und Gewerkschaften. Es geht um konkrete Maßnahmen, um die Stahlherstellung in Deutschland zu sichern. Mir sind wichtig: verlässliche Strompreise, die Förderung von Investitionen und der Schutz vor Dumping-Stahl. On Monday I will be meeting top representatives of the steel industry, works councils and unions. We will be discussing concrete measures to secure steel production in Germany. The following are important to me: reliable electricity prices, the promotion of investments and protection against dumping steel.” The problem is you have de jure worker unions and de facto unions of the wealthy. America had the same until Ronald Reagan. Then Reagan and Thatcher dismantled worker unions and union bosses. You got wealthy unions, oligarchs behaving now like mob bosses. So President Joe Biden @POTUS The White House as one part of his #bidenomics that I disagree with, returned along with Keir Starmer @BarackObama and @VP to worker unions as in Latin America led by Brazil @LulaOficial and @Claudiashein in Mexico and the rest of Europe. You cannot do oligarchy better, socialism better or communism better, or monarchy better, or autocracy and authoritarianism better. And globalization by Clintonomics better. This will not work. Deepak Chopra @DeepakChopra, a former doctor turned well known spiritual guru says on X (https://lnkd.in/ex8vd_Xj): “Instead of thinking outside the box, get rid of the box.” We may perceive the world, each one of us, differently, but once we get beyond the bubbles of our perceptions, we will come to the realization that our perceptions are but myriad manifestations of the same underlying reality. Most people stick to keeping change painless within the box even when changing the box is warranted. I do not have a box. But it is unfair on my part to expect all people not to also have it. Change made easy is to let people go about their lives without them even noticing that their box has been changed. #strategicpivot #planetarysecurity #OurCommonFuture The Nobel Prize 2024 One World http://tamirisa.com TAMIRISA