Category: Leaders

Because of their limited experience with parliamentary work, around 140 members from all over germany played out at a meeting in essen on saturday what could be in store for a pirate faction in the bundestag. It wasn’t about positions on content, but about practical issues such as the integration and payment of academic staff, transparency between the parliamentary group, the party and the public, or the way opinions are formed. All results are made public on the internet via the so-called "pirate pad.

Pollsters note a loss of significance for the party. "We are currently registering a significant decline for the pirate party in our polls," the head of the elections research group, matthias jung, told the berlin newspaper "tagesspiegel" (saturday). The success of the pirate party is based primarily on protest and the character of the new party. The core electorate is around three percent.

18 girls and women in different age groups competed in the upper franconian chess championship. There was a double premiere in nordhalben: for the first time the upper franconian girls’ and women’s championships took place in the club municipality with the FC nordhalben as host. The title matches were also held for the first time under the direction of the chess district’s new women’s chess commissioner, stefanie birke. The participants competed on nine boards in three tournaments for points and placements – and for tickets to the bavarian championship. One of them was won by vanessa gremer from kronacher SK in the u18 junior girls’ competition.

The tournament management was in the hands of stefanie birke and tobias feigel from the schachfreunde bad steben, who completed an association referee course with her last year and agreed to supervise the tournament from the EDP side. He also acted as official second referee on the spot. Furthermore, with the active chess player stefan wunder as former district youth leader, a chess expert with a lot of experience was on board. The tournament in the rooms of the "haus des gastes" therefore also went smoothly.

In austria the first federal government of conservative ovp and grune is perfect. A federal congress of the greens on saturday cleared the way for the party’s participation in government as a last resort.

Of the 276 delegates, an overwhelming majority of 93.18 percent voted for the federation. "We were elected to take responsibility," party leader werner kogler had said in his speech, soliciting the delegates’ approval. Now the new government can be sworn in next tuesday. Chancellor becomes ovp chief sebastian kurz again. Kogler becomes vice chancellor. In the cabinet, which is clearly dominated by the OVP, the greens represent, among others, the environment minister. For the first time, more women than men sit in the austrian government.

On 30. On the 50th anniversary of the tian’anmen massacre, tens of thousands of people in hong kong commemorated the victims of the bloody crackdown on the democracy movement in china.

The leadership in beijing, on the other hand, defended the military operation on the night of 4 a.M. Tuesday. June 1989. The auben ministry also rejected criticism of the human rights situation by the U.S. And the EU as "interference in internal affairs". With tight security, any public commemoration was nipped in the bud in china.

Following the suspected attack on two oil tankers in the gulf of oman, tensions between the u.S. And iran are growing threateningly. US secretary of state mike pompeo on thursday accused iran of being behind the attacks.

"It is the assessment of the u.S. Government that the islamic republic of iran is responsible for the attacks that occurred today in the gulf of oman," pompeo said in washington. It was an "unacceptable escalation of tension by iran.". Pompeo said the U.S. Assessment was based on intelligence, weapons used and similar attacks in the recent past, among other factors.

The schutzenverein eintracht eggolsheim has for the first time determined its schutzenkonige according to a new modus. Special was this year that the schutzenkonig could also push hung up or with the air pistol.

It was maintained that only a single, covertly fired shot "at the king" had been fired is possible. The divisor of the shot is offset by a factor in order to compare the results across the different categories. This new possibility met with a positive response.