Category: Leaders

The green party conference in berlin on sunday unanimously adopted an election program for ecology, social reform and redistribution. Top candidate jurgen trittin issued the following slogan to the cheers of around 800 delegates: "replace black-yellow with green change."

Baden-wurttemberg premier winfried kretschmann’s call for tax policy restraint was not echoed by his party. The coalition of union and FDP reacted promptly to the decisions with uproar.

At the grunen party conference, SPD leader sigmar gabriel described the red-green coalition of choice as a landmark in an acclaimed guest speech. "It’s about fairness, about sustainability, about justice," said gabriel. The red-green coalition must be more than a mathematically possible coalition. "We are the lobby of real life," said grunen top candidate katrin goring-eckardt. Five months before the parliamentary elections, party leader claudia roth aggressively appealed for unity and confidence: "we’ll get it done!"

FC bayern impressively underpinned its champions league title ambitions. The bundesliga dominator set course for the semifinals with a commanding 2-0 (1-0) win over italian champions juventus turin.

Three days after the 9:2 gala against hamburger sv, the munich team once again gave a demonstration of its strength. David alaba scored after only 26 seconds on tuesday evening, thomas muller (63.) scored his fifth goal of the season in the konigsklasse and put the 150th goal in the history of the club. Munchner european cup win for sure. However, toni kroos will be missing for several weeks with a torn muscle bundle.

"The team played outstanding soccer," praised bayern coach jupp heynckes. "One can be highly satisfied. It was the best champions league game this season. That’s the result we wanted," said a satisfied bayern chairman karlheinz rummenigge. Captain philipp lahm warned: "we’re not through yet. Juve is a real top team. " Even bastian schweinsteiger wasn’t entirely satisfied with his goal haul. "My feeling is that we should have scored one more goal," he said, and thomas muller also complained: "the third goal was still missing."

Anton eckert has the vision of lock 94 as a place of looking and learning. Supported by european leader funds, an open-air museum could be built on the former ludwig-danube-main canal, says the district’s culture officer. "When the structure has been restored in accordance with the preservation order, the canal can be shown in its former glory."

In recent years, the community of eggolsheim had moved quite far away from this vision. The industrial monument had above all become a bone of contention between the CSU and the burgerbund. In 2010, 900,000 euros in demand money had already lured, but the disputing parties did not come to potte. Now a new round in the fight for the use of the lock 94 is started. The issue is twofold: can and should the lock be rehabilitated?? And how will the nature reserve in the old canal bed be used??

For saturday the municipality has approved the performance of the music group juno there. That led in the apron to a massive protest. Ex-mdl walter hofmann (CSU) and heinz marquart (chairman of the CSU environmental working group) had already met on 18. June addressed to ministerial councilor lorenz sanktjohanser in the ministry of the environment. "An open air festival in the nature conservation, bird protection and FFH area bug?" – whether this is not a violation of the federal nature conservation act? Whether the municipality was granted an exemption from the ordinance?