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Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz speaks in Dresden / Photo: Sebastian Kahnert/dpa/Archivbild

Federal Chancellor visits Dresden craft business

Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) is coming to Dresden again. On April 19, he will visit Holzbau Lepski GmbH in Dresden at the invitation of the Dresden Chamber of Crafts, the chamber announced on Friday. The family business, which was founded in 2006, is managed by master carpenter Ralf Lepski a ..

Michael Kellner, Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs / Photo: Bernd von Jutrczenka/dpa

Ministry of Economic Affairs: Closure of solar plant depressing

The Federal Ministry of Economics has expressed its disappointment at the closure of solar module manufacturer Meyer Burger's plant in Saxony. "The news from Freiberg is depressing," explained Parliamentary State Secretary Michael Kellner on Tuesday. He added that they were aware of the very serious ..

Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz speaks at the official opening event of the Leipzig Book Fair in the Gewandhaus / Photo: Hendrik Schmidt/dpa

Scholz: More surprise behind the cover of a book than online

Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz has outed himself as a bookworm. "We all - and I include myself in this - share a love of reading," said the SPD politician on Wednesday evening at the opening of the book fair in Leipzig. "Whether as a child in the evening before going to sleep, as a young politician ..

Saxony's Minister President Michael Kretschmer. / Photo: Michael Kappeler/dpa

Kretschmer: Migration commission without bans on thinking

Michael Kretschmer (CDU), Minister-President of Saxony, links the planned cross-party commission "Managing migration, protecting humanity" with progress in asylum policy. The commission must have neither blinkers nor bans on thinking and must also discuss an amendment to the Basic Law or cuts in ben ..

Michael Kretschmer, Minister President of Saxony, speaks / Photo: Hendrik Schmidt/dpa

Kretschmer: Payment card to make payment in origin more difficult

Saxony's Minister President Michael Kretschmer (CDU) has welcomed the agreement reached by the traffic light coalition on payment cards for asylum seekers in principle. Now it depends on the exact details, he said in an initial reaction to the German Press Agency in Chemnitz. The payment card is imp ..

Michael Kretschmer, Minister President of Saxony, speaks / Photo: Hendrik Schmidt/dpa

Kretschmer: Payment card to make payment in origin more difficult

Saxony's Minister President Michael Kretschmer (CDU) has welcomed the agreement reached by the traffic light coalition on payment cards for asylum seekers in principle. Now it depends on the exact details, he said in an initial reaction to the German Press Agency in Chemnitz. The payment card is imp ..

Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) speaks / Photo: Sebastian Kahnert/dpa

"Diplomats instead of grenades": Fuss over Scholz message to Putin

Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz has sparked discussion on social media with a message to Russian President Vladimir Putin at a public discussion in Dresden. At the event on Thursday evening, a participant handed him a sheet of stickers with the slogan "Diplomats instead of grenades" and asked him to ..

Federal Economics Minister Robert Habeck (Greens) is traveling through several federal states from Wednesday to Friday / Photo: Monika Skolimowska/dpa/Archivbild

Habeck undertakes three-country trip to Germany

Federal Minister for Economic Affairs Robert Habeck is traveling through several federal states from Wednesday to Friday. The Green politician first has appointments in Saxony on Wednesday, then in Thuringia on Thursday and in Munich on Friday. The program of a "skilled workers and energy trip" incl ..

Christian Lindner (FDP) sits in front of the stage at the annual reception of the Federation of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Business Associations at Hasenwinkel Castle / Photo: Jens Büttner/dpa

Lindner verbally attacked by activists during appearance

Nine supporters of the climate group Last Generation interrupted an appearance by Federal Finance Minister Christian Lindner (FDP) in Leipzig on Thursday afternoon. According to the police on Thursday, the activists ran towards the stage during a debate in Leipzig's Kupfersaal and verbally attacked ..

Michael Kretschmer (CDU), Minister President of Saxony, speaks at a demonstration against right-wing extremism on Marienplatz / Photo: Sebastian Kahnert/dpa

German flag to remain in the hands of the Democrats

Saxony's Minister President and CDU Vice President Michael Kretschmer emphasizes the importance of the German flag for democrats at demonstrations and criticizes the behaviour of the federal government in connection with the protests.

Armin Eichholz, CEO of Mibrag GmbH, sits in one of the company's conference rooms / Photo: Jan Woitas/dpa/Production

Head of lignite producer Mibrag sees little chance of early coal phase-out in the East

The head of lignite producer Mibrag, Armin Eichholz, currently sees little chance of a premature coal phase-out in the east. Mibrag operates the Vereinigtes Schleenhain and Profen opencast mines in Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt and generates electricity from the coal in the Schkopau and Lippendorf power plants, which are due to be taken off the grid in 2034/2035. The "traffic light" federal government would ideally like to bring forward the coal phase-out in the east from 2038 to 2030, but the Minister Presidents of Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Brandenburg are against this. Eichholz emphasized that the expansion of renewable energies is putting pressure on coal-fired power generation, but that the question of supply during lulls and when there is little sunshine is also relevant. The plans envisage the construction of around 40 gas-fired power plant units by 2030, but whether this is feasible remains questionable. Eichholz also emphasized that power plants would have to keep running if the supply of renewable energies was scarce and that coal could hardly be avoided if the gas-fired power plants were not completed in time. The question of whether it is still worthwhile for the power plant operators is also open.

Michael Kretschmer (CDU), Minister President of Saxony, at an event. / Photo: Robert Michael/dpa

Kretschmer: "Traffic light" agreement lacks a positive spin

The head of the Saxon government, Michael Kretschmer (CDU), believes that the agreement reached by the "traffic light" coalition on the 2024 federal budget is inadequate. "You get the budget together, but everything becomes more expensive. This does not create a positive spin, nothing that leads to ..

Michael Kretschmer (CDU), Minister President of Saxony, speaks / Photo: Robert Michael/dpa

Kretschmer: Federal-Länder agreement only a first step

Saxony's Minister President Michael Kretschmer has criticized the results of the federal-state negotiations on migration as disappointing. Many points had been watered down by the federal government, the CDU politician said in Dresden on Tuesday. Nevertheless, the final decision was important as a f ..

Michael Kretschmer (CDU), Minister President of the Free State of Saxony / Photo: Jens Kalaene/dpa

Migration: Kretschmer calls for cross-party solution

Saxony's Minister President Michael Kretschmer has called for a cross-party solution to the problems of the federal states and municipalities on the subject of migration, but has expressed skepticism about the proposals of Chancellor Olaf Scholz's (SPD) "traffic light" coalition. "The horizon of exp ..

Nancy Faeser (SPD), Federal Minister of the Interior and Home Affairs / Photo: Kay Nietfeld/dpa

Faeser extends stationary border controls by 20 days

Federal Interior Ministry Nancy Faeser wants to extend the stationary controls at the borders with Poland, the Czech Republic and Switzerland for another twenty days. The SPD politician said on Wednesday in Berlin.Faeser had registered the fixed controls on October 16 for an initial ten days with th ..

Officers of the Federal Police stand at the German border / Photo: Patrick Pleul/dpa/Symbolbild

Federal police prepared at Saxon borders

Following the U-turn by Federal Minister of the Interior Nancy Faeser (SPD) on the issue of stationary border controls, the Federal Police is prepared at the Saxon borders with Poland and the Czech Republic.

Nancy Faeser (SPD), Federal Minister of the Interior and Home Affairs, speaks / Photo: Bernd von Jutrczenka/dpa

Faeser: Notify EU of additional border controls

Intensified dragnets, selective controls at the borders - for a long time, the Federal Minister of the Interior has resisted ordering stationary controls at additional border sections. Now the decision has been made.

A model of the Germany ticket. / Photo: David Young/dpa/Symbolbild

East mayors see Germany ticket in danger

The mayors of eastern German cities see the Germany ticket from 2024 before the end. The reason is enormous additional costs for public transport in the coming years, for which the federal government has so far refused to provide financial compensation, Leipzig's mayor Burkhard Jung (SPD) said on Tu ..

Michael Kretschmer (CDU), Minister President of Saxony / Photo: Jan Woitas/dpa

Kretschmer vehemently against Taurus cruise missiles for Ukraine

Saxony's Prime Minister Michael Kretschmer vehemently opposes the delivery of Taurus cruise missiles to Ukraine. "Do we really want to accept that German missiles could strike Russia? I am clearly against the delivery of cruise missiles," the CDU politician wrote on the social network X (formerly Tw ..