✦ Security & police

In the Bremen parliament, a bill from the CDU parliamentary group to change the Bremen shop closing law was rejected. The aim of the draft was to permanently continue the previously limited possibility of additional Sunday and public holiday openings in the Bremerhaven Haven Worl…

The AfD parliamentary group has submitted a bill to amend the Saxon building regulations to the state parliament. The draft primarily deals with stricter requirements for the construction and operation of wind turbines. The core of the bill is the introduction of a nationwide min…

The Bundestag has rejected the AfD parliamentary group's draft law to abolish the criminal offense of insulting politicians. With the draft law “Strengthening freedom of expression and equality before the law”, the AfD parliamentary group called for the deletion of Section 188 of…

A motion from the CDU parliamentary group in the Bremen parliament, which deals with a paint attack on the home of the head of the State Office for the Protection of the Constitution in January 2026, was accepted. The background is an attack suspected to be motivated by left-wing…

The North Rhine-Westphalia state parliament decided in a roll-call vote on an amendment from the SPD parliamentary group to the 2026 budget law. The request referred to additional funds for the police, in particular for the purchase of technical equipment. Specifically, the budge…

In a roll-call vote, a motion from the ALLIANCE 90/THE GREENS parliamentary group was rejected, in which the federal government was called upon to consistently implement all existing acceptance commitments for Afghan nationals. According to the application, people who have receiv…

A federal government bill to modernize and digitize the fight against undeclared work was passed in the Bundestag. The draft law aims to make the customs administration's financial control of undeclared work (FKS) more efficient and effective. The core of this should be a more ri…

Effective gender equality in Europe was debated in the EU Parliament. Concrete measures that provide for an ambitious equality strategy after 2025 with concrete legal initiatives were adopted in the plenary session. Among other things, it is called for the Commission to take more…

The state parliament has dealt with a proposal from the AfD parliamentary group to combat left-wing extremism in Thuringia. In it, the group says that left-wing extremist violence and structures have increased in the country and that state measures have not yet been sufficiently …

The state parliament in Bavaria has rejected a proposal from the ALLIANCE 90/THE GREENS faction to combat anti-Semitism in schools. The application called on the government to carry out a representative study on anti-Semitic incidents in Bavarian schools in collaboration with a q…

The state parliament in Bavaria has rejected a proposal from the ALLIANCE 90/THE GREENS parliamentary group for a flat rate in the financing of private special schools. The application called on the government to simplify and accelerate the conversion of the financing of private …

In the state parliament of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, a motion from the CDU parliamentary group dealing with a promotion scandal in the Ministry of the Interior was rejected. The background is allegations that there may have been irregularities in connection with a promotion …

An emergency motion from the AfD parliamentary group in the Bavarian state parliament was rejected, in which the parliamentary group called on the state government to implement measures against the arson attacks on AfD and CSU offices in Munich. Among other things, bans on associ…

The state parliament has approved an emergency motion from the CSU and FREIEN WÄHLER factions that there should be no further liberalization of abortion law and that the regulations on criminal liability and impunity in Sections 218 and 218a of the Criminal Code (StGB) should con…

An emergency motion from the AfD parliamentary group, which calls for a clear commitment to protecting life and the human dignity of unborn life, was rejected in a roll-call vote. Specifically, the AfD parliamentary group demands that the state government expressly affirm the rig…

The state parliament passed a motion by the SPD and Die Linke parliamentary groups in a roll-call vote in which it resolutely condemns racism, violence, hate speech and discrimination and affirms respect for human dignity and the free-democratic basic order. The background is the…

The EU Parliament voted on a proposal from the EU Commission that envisages downgrading wolf protection from “strictly protected” to “protected”. After the plenary session decided on Tuesday to deal with the proposal as an emergency procedure, a vote was now taken on the correspo…